Women in Pain : Gender and Morbidity in Mexico / Kaja Finkler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkler, Kaja, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--Mexico.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene--Social aspects--Mexico.

Women--Health and hygiene--Mexico--Case studies.

Women--Health and hygiene--Social aspects--Mexico--Case studies.

Sex role--Mexico.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kaja Finkler explores the relationship between patterns of social interaction, cultural expectations, and gender ideologies. In Women in Pain, she examines the nature of sickness and its interaction with issues about gender and gender relations from both a historical and contemporary perspective.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Nature of Sickness

3. The Nature of Gender

4. Gender and the Nature of Sickness

5. Gender, Culture, and Society in Mexico

6. An Aggregate Profile of a Sick Population of Women

7. Margarita: A Woman in Search of Individuation

8. Alicia: A Mother and a Mistress

9. Julia: A Drunken Husband

10. Rebecca: A Woman on the Verge of Disintegration

11. Juana: In Search of Dignity Amid a Garbage Dump

12. Carlota: From Proletarian to Housewife

13. Josefina: "All My Life I Worked Very Hard"

14. Susana: A Woman Who Ventured into the Public Domain

15. Norma: "1 Have Found God"

16. Maria: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire

17. Conclusion

Bibliography

Glossary of Spanish Words and Phrases

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-283-21091-6

9786613210913

0-8122-0043-8

0-585-12672-0

OCLC:

44962959