Virtually Virgins Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil

Name: Virtually Virgins Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil
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ISBN: 9780804747561

ISBN-10: 0804747563

ISBN-13: 9780804747561

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jessica L. Gregg

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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Women Interviewed


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Culture, Gender, and Ethnography



The Ilha: Life in a Brazilian Shantytown



"A Woman Has to Stay in the House": Gender and Sexuality in the Ilha



Sexuality and Risk: Biomedical Constructions of Brasileira Sexuality



Sexuality as Survival: Favelada Constructions of Women's Sexuality



Expedient Boundaries: Security and Agency in the Ilha



Rearranging Risk: Local Understandings of the Pap Smear



"I've Eaten so Many Good Men Since You Left": Liberdade, Resistance, and Ambivalence in the Ilha



"You Get it if You Go out Looking for a Man": Cervical Cancer and Stigma



Living with Inflammation, Dying from Cancer, and Curing an Incurable Disease



Some Survivors



Methodology



Economic Data for the Sample of Women with Cancer



Impact of Screening Services on Cervical Cancer Morbidity and Mortality



Nonbiomedical Forms of Healing


Notes


Works Cited


Index