Lisa Beljuli Brown

Body Parts on Planet Slum (eBook, PDF)

Women and Telenovelas in Brazil

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857284464
• Artikelnr.: 55386396

Autorenporträt

Lisa Beljuli Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She gained her PhD in social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Juliet Mitchell
Introduction
Chapter 1. Theodicy and Ideology: ‘Everybody Needs an Ideology to Live’
Chapter 2. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
But in the Meantime They Shall Watch Telenovelas
Chapter 3. Suffering Soaps
Fragmented Bodies
Chapter 4. The Politics of the Vagina
Chapter 5. The Redemptive Womb
Chapter 6. The Invisible Back
Final Feliz
Illustrations
Table: Women Respondents
Glossary
Bibliography
Index