Bodies in crisis : culture, violence, and women's resistance in neoliberal Argentina / Barbara Sutton.

• Born and raised in Argentina and still maintaining significant ties to the area, Barbara Sutton examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in that country during a period of profound social upheaval. Based primarily on women's experiential narratives and set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, Bodies in Crisis illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies. Sutton reveals the bodily scars of neoliberal globalization; women's negotiation of cultural norms of femininity and beauty; experiences with clandestine, illegal, and unsafe abortions; exposure to and resistance against interpersonal and structural violence; and the role of bodies as tools and vehicles of political action.???Through the lens of women's body consciousness in a Global South country, and drawing on multifaceted stories and a politically embedded approach, Bodies in Crisis suggests that social policy, economic systems, cultural ideologies, and political resistance are ultimately fleshly matters. 

Ämnesord

Kvinnoförtryck  (sao)

Kvinnokroppen  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Kvinnokroppen  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Kvinnokroppen  -- ekonomiska aspekter (sao)

Sex discrimination against women  (LCSH)

Argentina  (sao)

Klassifikation

306.4 (DDC)

Oa (kssb/8 (machine generated))