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
Chapter 1: Freedom in Practice: Art-Making and the Politics of Women's Incarceration I Argentina
Chapter 2: Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, and Same-Sex Performances
Chapter 3: Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and Bodily Capital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador
Chapter 4: Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and Gendered Power in Puerto Rico
Chapter 5: Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Disease in Guadeloupe
Chapter 6: Convergent Therapies in Peru's Amazon: Enriching Mental Wellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy
Chapter 7: Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender and Health in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions
Chapter 8: "Here to Stay in the Bay!": The Politics of Vestibularity, Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and the Work of Recognition
Chapter 9: Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the Mental Health Impacts of Forced Migration
Chapter 10: Access to Healthcare, Institutional Violence, and Resistance of Female Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
