Body parts on planet slum : women and telenovelas in Brazil / Lisa Beljuli Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Lisa Beljuli.

Series:

Key issues in modern sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor women--Brazil--Social conditions.

Slums--Brazil.

Television soap operas--Brazil.

Television soap operas.

Slums.

Poor women.

Social conditions.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

xxv, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2011.

Summary:

In this ethnographic study of poor women residing in the slums of Salvador, Brazil, Brown (sociology, U. of Witwatersrand, South Africa) highlights the central role of the telenovelas (akin to soap operas) in the informal survivalism of the slums. She examines the ways in which the women viewers of the telenovelas utilize them as symbolic resources for reconstructing their bodies, largely devalued by the wider society and its institutions, even if such symbolic agency is not necessarily deployed in critique of social exclusion and inequality. Distributed in the US by Books International, Inc. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857287977

0857287974

OCLC:

707265775

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