Full Description
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean takes a multilayered approach to the contemporary peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora. Central to this edited collection, and critical to its creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of gendered health, the embodiment of identity, societal structures, and social inequality, and the ways in which gender, health, and society intersect daily. By emphasizing the complex ways in which gender and health intersect in Latin America, the contributors to this collection offer a more detailed look at how gender embodies health inequities in these populations and how societal woes impact and constrain gendered bodies in public spheres.
Contents
Introduction: Gender, Health, and Society
Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman Ginzburg
Chapter 1 Freedom in Practice: Art Making and the Politics of
Women's Incarceration in Argentina
Leyla Savloff
Chapter 2 Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, and
Same-Sex Performances
Lauren M. Pérez-Bonilla
Chapter 3 Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and Bodily
Capital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador
Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Tia Tyndal
Chapter 4 Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and Gendered
Power in Puerto Rico
Adriana M. Garriga-López and Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz
Chapter 5 Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Disease
in Guadeloupe
Shan-Estelle Brown
Chapter 6 Convergent Therapies in Peru's Amazon: Enriching Mental
Wellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy
Olivia Marcus and Evgenia Fotiou
Chapter 7 Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender and
Health in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions
Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman Ginzburg
Chapter 8 "Here to Stay in the Bay!": The Politics of Vestibularity,
Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and the
Work of Recognition
Antwann Michael Simpkins
Chapter 9 Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the Mental
Health Impacts of Forced Migration
Anayeli Marcos, Ana Vidina Hernández, Dora Gonzalez, and
Laurie Cook Heffron
Chapter 10 Access to Health Care, Institutional Violence, and Resistance of
Female Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Marco Aurélio Prado and Reynel Chaparro
