Lexington Books
Pages: 230
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-7284-2 • Hardback • July 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-7285-9 • eBook • July 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Ronnie Shepard is adjunct professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, Goodwin College, and the University of Connecticut.
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.
Introduction: Gender, Health, and Society Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman GinzburgChapter 1 Freedom in Practice: Art Making and the Politics ofWomen’s Incarceration in Argentina Leyla SavloffChapter 2 Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, andSame-Sex Performances Lauren M. Pérez-BonillaChapter 3 Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and BodilyCapital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Tia TyndalChapter 4 Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and GenderedPower in Puerto Rico Adriana M. Garriga-López and Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz
Chapter 5 Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Disease
in Guadeloupe
Shan-Estelle Brown
Chapter 6 Convergent Therapies in Peru’s Amazon: Enriching Mental
Wellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy
Olivia Marcus and Evgenia Fotiou
Chapter 7 Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender and
Health in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions
Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman Ginzburg
Chapter 8 “Here to Stay in the Bay!”: The Politics of Vestibularity,
Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and the
Work of Recognition
Antwann Michael Simpkins
Chapter 9 Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the Mental
Health Impacts of Forced Migration
Anayeli Marcos, Ana Vidina Hernández, Dora Gonzalez, and
Laurie Cook Heffron
Chapter 10 Access to Health Care, Institutional Violence, and Resistance of
Female Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Marco Aurélio Prado and Reynel Chaparro
“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
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean brings together scholars and practitioners heralding from cultural and medical anthropology, social work, sociology, social psychology, public health, and other related disciplines, in a collection that exemplifies the combined insights of intersectionality theory and engaged ethnography. Valuable for researchers, graduate students and perhaps undergraduates, and especially important for policymakers and legislators, this text underscores the importance of pathways for improved holistic health determinants charted for them through the human right to health.
— New West Indian Guide