Women in Pain Gender and Morbidity in Mexico

Name: Women in Pain Gender and Morbidity in Mexico
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ISBN: 9780812215274

ISBN-10: 0812215273

ISBN-13: 9780812215274

Edition: 1994

Authors: Kaja Finkler

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Problem



Introduction



The Nature of Sickness



The Nature of Gender



Gender and the Nature of Sickness



The Context



Gender, Culture, and Society in Mexico



An Aggregate Profile of a Sick Population of Women



Women's Lives and Women's Pains



Margarita: A Women in Search of Individuation



Alicia: A Mother and a Mistress



Julia: A Drunken Husband



Rebecca: A Woman on the Verge of Disintegration



Juana: In Search of Dignity Amid a Garbage Dump



Carlota: From Proletarian to Housewife



Josefina: "All My Life I Worked Very Hard"



Susana: A Woman Who Ventured into the Public Domain



Norma: "I Have Found God"



Maria: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire



Conclusion


Bibliography


Glossary of Spanish Words and Phrases


Index