Embodied Protests: Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
Maria Tapias
Abstract
This book examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many of its women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, the book examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. The book approaches the narratives of emotional distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowled ... More
Keywords: disease, Bolivia, women, Punata, debilidad, social suffering, emotional distress, poverty, domestic violence, social networks
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252039171 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252039171.001.0001 |
