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.
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.
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
Ronnie Shepard is adjunct professor at Eastern Connecticut State
University.
Shir Lerman Ginzburg is project director in the Department of
Pediatrics and the Preventive Intervention Research Center for
Child Health (PIRC) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
“A fascinating volume and invaluable resource, Gender, Health and
Society in Latin America contains a collection of case studies from
a diverse group of scholars exploring important intersectional
questions about gender and health in Latin America and the
Caribbean. The contributors use case studies, ethnographic
research, and theory to create locally-defined critiques of gender
and health that take into account such complex questions as race,
sexuality, reproductive rights, (dis)abilities, age, and class. I
highly recommend this book to any scholar interested in gaining a
nuanced understanding of gender, health and society in Latin
America and the Caribbean today. “
*Beatriz Reyes-Foster, University of Central Florida*
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