Traumatic states : gendered violence, suffering, and care in Chile / Nia Parson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parson, Nia, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimate partner violence--Chile.

Intimate partner violence.

Marital violence--Chile.

Marital violence.

Violence--Chile.

Violence.

Women--Health and hygiene--Chile.

Women.

Women--Violence against--Chile.

Women--Chile--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never before existed. What emerged were grassroots women's rights organizations, challenging and engaging the government and NGOs to confront long-ignored problems in responding to marginalized victims. In Traumatic States, anthropologist Nia Parson explores the development of methods of care and recovery from domestic violence. She interviews and contextualizes the lives of numerous individuals who have confronted these acts, as victims, authorities, and activists. Ultimately, Traumatic States argues that facing the challenges of healing both body and mind, and addressing the fundamental inequalities that make those challenges even more formidable, are part of the same battle.

Contents:

Unfinished care

Feeling the state's gaze on intimate violence

"Exhaustion": becoming a victim and a deserving citizen

Entanglements of violence: individualized "cures"

Sanación: resilience through excavating the "ordinary"

Contingencies of care

The process of care and the work of ethnography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826503428

082650342X

9780826518972

0826518974

OCLC:

840257032