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Title: Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico by Kaja Finkler ISBN: 0-8122-1527-3 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Summary: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico Review
Comment: Finkler discusses the ways in which the lives of poor Mexican women are entwined with sickness and health. The book's concept is that of "life's lesions"--the bodily insults engendered by the adversities of existence, inimical social relationships, and unresolved tensions in the women's daily experiences. At the book's heart are the life histories of ten women drawn from a sample of 205 clinic patients with varied nonfatal symptomatologies. The life histories illustrate both the subjective nature of sickness and its embeddedness in material conditions and prevailing ideological currents. The sick women are compared with a sample of 54 healthy women from the same social strata and neighborhoods. Significantly, while most husbands of the healthy women hold stable jobs, most husbands of the sick women have transient sources of livelihood. The author posits that the more precarious economic resources of the latter households give rise to more adverse marital interactions, which in turn resonate on the wives' life lesions. Several theoretical chapters explore the connections between gender and sickness, and one deals with historical and contemporary perspectives on male-female relations and ideologies about women in Mexico. Upper-division undergraduate through professional.
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Title: The Woman in the Body : A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin ISBN: 0807046450 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520229134 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease by Robert Klitzman ISBN: 0738206148 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart ISBN: 0890899428 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology) by Margaret Lock ISBN: 0520228146 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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