Marked Women
The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela
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2018
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New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0643-2 (ISBN)
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0643-2 (ISBN)
Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease.
Drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted in two oncology hospitals in Caracas, Marked Women is an ethnography of women's experiences with cervical cancer, the doctors and nurses who treat them, and the public health officials and administrators who set up intervention programs to combat the disease. Rebecca G. Martínez contextualizes patient-doctor interactions within a historical arc of Venezuelan nationalism, modernity, neoliberalism, and Chavismo to understand the scientific, social, and political discourses surrounding the disease. The women, marked as deviant for their sexual transgressions, are not only characterized as engaging in unhygienic, uncultured, and promiscuous behaviors, but also become embodiments of these very behaviors. Ultimately, Marked Women explores how epidemiological risk is a socially, culturally, and historically embedded process—and how this enables cervical cancer to stigmatize women as socially marginal, burdens on society, and threats to the "health" of the modern nation.
Drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted in two oncology hospitals in Caracas, Marked Women is an ethnography of women's experiences with cervical cancer, the doctors and nurses who treat them, and the public health officials and administrators who set up intervention programs to combat the disease. Rebecca G. Martínez contextualizes patient-doctor interactions within a historical arc of Venezuelan nationalism, modernity, neoliberalism, and Chavismo to understand the scientific, social, and political discourses surrounding the disease. The women, marked as deviant for their sexual transgressions, are not only characterized as engaging in unhygienic, uncultured, and promiscuous behaviors, but also become embodiments of these very behaviors. Ultimately, Marked Women explores how epidemiological risk is a socially, culturally, and historically embedded process—and how this enables cervical cancer to stigmatize women as socially marginal, burdens on society, and threats to the "health" of the modern nation.
Rebecca G. Martínez is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri.
Introduction: Caracas, Venezuela: On Arrival
1. Hospitals, Patients, and Doctors
2. The Ambiguities of Risk: Morality, Hygiene, and the "Other"
3. Targeting Women: Bodies out of "Control," Public Health, and the Body Politic
4. The Hospital Encounter: Bodies Marked, Mended, and Manipulated
5. Women's Agency and Resilience: "They Way I Want to Be Treated"
Epilogue: From Neoliberalism to Chávez
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 5 halftones, 18 tables |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5036-0643-0 / 1503606430 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5036-0643-2 / 9781503606432 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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