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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463617703321

Autore

Tapias Maria

Titolo

Embodied protests : emotions and women's health in Bolivia / / Maria Tapias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-252-08074-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium

Disciplina

305.40984

Soggetti

Women - Bolivia - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Bolivia Economic conditions

Bolivia Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.