Virtually Virgins

Name: Virtually Virgins
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804747554
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Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil

Autor: Jessica L. Gregg

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (fav...

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Autor

Jessica L. Gregg

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2003

Pagini

232

EAN

9780804747554

ISBN

0804747555

Enbook ID

04717632

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

458

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 21

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This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (favela) in northeastern Brazil, while exploring the complex interplay between gender, sexuality, power and disease. It reveals how poor Brasileiras are constrained by dominant cultural constructions of female sexuality as a dangerous force that must be controlled by men; yet these women also manipulate these expectations by using their sexuality as a means to secure economic support from men. The book argues that these constructions affect their interpretations of medical discourse on the prevention of cervical cancer. Since women view sex as both a force they can't control and as a necessary tool for their survival, they choose to de-emphasize medical warnings against risky sexual behaviour, with grave consequences for their health. The text is threaded with poignant, humorous, sometimes graphic, and always memorable depictions of women's lives in the shantytowns, making this serious anthropological study a highly readable one as well.

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