Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean

  1. 231 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean

About this book

Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean takes a multilayered approach to the contemporary peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora. Central to this edited collection, and critical to its creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of gendered health, the embodiment of identity, societal structures, and social inequality, and the ways in which gender, health, and society intersect daily. By emphasizing the complex ways in which gender and health intersect in Latin America, the contributors to this collection offer a more detailed look at how gender embodies health inequities in these populations and how societal woes impact and constrain gendered bodies in public spheres.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction. Gender, Health, and Society
  4. Chapter One. Freedom in Practice: Art Making and the Politics of Women’s Incarceration in Argentina
  5. Chapter Two. Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, and Same-Sex Performances
  6. Chapter Three. Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and Bodily Capital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador
  7. Chapter Four. Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and Gendered Power in Puerto Rico
  8. Chapter Five. Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Disease in Guadeloupe
  9. Chapter Six. Convergent Therapies in Peru’s Amazon: Enriching Mental Wellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy
  10. Chapter Seven. Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender and Health in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions
  11. Chapter Eight. “Here to Stay in the Bay!”: The Politics of Vestibularity, Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and the Work of Recognition
  12. Chapter Nine. Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the Mental Health Impacts of Forced Migration
  13. Chapter Ten. Access to Health Care, Institutional Violence, and Resistance of Female Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  14. Index
  15. About the Contributors