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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812215274
  • 9780812200430
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4/272/082 20
LOC classification:
  • RA564.85 .F56 1994eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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