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Bodies in Crisis : Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina by Sutton, Barbara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Sutton, Barbara

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813547404

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Gender Studies