Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8135-4739-8
Verlag: RUTGERS UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

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 multifacered stories and a politically embedded approach, ""Bodies in Crisis"" suggests that social policy, economic systems, cultural ideologies, and political resistance are ultimately fleshly matters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sutton, Barbara

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Sutton's stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Antioch Review, Agni, and other literary journals. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.