Embodied protests : emotions and women's health in Bolivia /
Maria Tapias.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
- Interpretations of culture in the new millennium .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : embodied protests, emotions, and failing socialities -- Neoliberalism on the ground : political, economic, and social landscapes -- Physicality's sociality and sociality's physicality : fluid boundaries of the body -- The intergenerational embodiment of social suffering -- Anxious ambitions and the financing of tranquility -- Moving sentiments : emotions and migration -- Conclusion.
'Embodied Protests' examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering.