Body Parts on Planet Slum

Women and Telenovelas in Brazil

von Lisa Beljuli Brown

184 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen Frauen und Mädchen
• ISBN: 9780857287977
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2011
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press