| Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Brown, Lisa Beljuli (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857287974 ISBN-13: 9780857287977 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 2011033939 |
| Series: Key Issues in Modern Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 182 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, 'Body Parts on Planet Slum' reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence - their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment. |