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Body Parts on Planet Slum
Women and Telenovelas in Brazil
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
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Based on a year’s research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, ‘Body Parts on Planet Slum’ reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence – their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2011-10-01
- Mått153 x 229 x 26 mm
- Vikt454 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieKey Issues in Modern Sociology
- Antal sidor182
- FörlagAnthem Press
- ISBN9780857287977
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