Speaking from the Body Latinas on Health and Culture

Name: Speaking from the Body Latinas on Health and Culture
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ISBN: 9780816526642

ISBN-10: 0816526648

ISBN-13: 9780816526642

Edition: 2008

Authors: Angie Chabram, Adela de la Torre

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In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family caregivers, or friends. They show how the complex interweaving of gender, class, and race impacts the health status of Latinasand how family, spirituality, and culture affect the experience of illness. Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many: hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinsons, lupus, and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form part of the larger whole of Latina lives that…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre are professors of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Davis. Professor Chabram-Dernersesian is the editor of The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum and The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader. Adela de la Torre is also the author of Mexican Americans and Health and Moving from the Margins: A Chicanas Voice on Public Policy, both published by the University of Arizona Press.



Introduction: Narratives of Latina Health




Of Breasts and Baldness: My Life with Cancer




Embodying Dementia: Remembrances of Memory Loss




Countering the Pain That Never Heals: Platicas That Mend the Soul




Letters to Ceci: A Journey from Hyperthyroidism to Hypothyroidism




Fat in America: A Latina's Personal Journey



A Language for Healing: Finding Sacred Meaning in Transcending Chronic Lupus




Debe ser la reuma/It Must Be Rheumatism




My Spirit in Rebellion, My Body with Parkinson's Disease: Soy soldadera rebelde




"I Wake Up and Go to Bed with Pills": An Anonymous Latina Speaks about the Not-So-Silent Killer (Hypertension)



A Tapestry of Illness: A Latina Physician's Family Gives Voice to Diabetes and Illness




"Working toward Wholeness": Gloria Anzaldua's Struggles to Live with Diabetes and Chronic Illness




When the Joys of Pregnancy Bring a Shocking Discovery: A Latina Epidemiologist Confronts Gestational Diabetes




A Retrospective on the Narratives of Latina Health: What We Can Learn




Latina Health: Empirical Realities, Alternative Interpretations, and Policy Recommendations



Notes


References and Further Reading


About the Editors


About the Contributors