Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina

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Born and raised in Argentina and still maintaining significant ties to the realm, Barbara Sutton examines the complex, and incessantly hidden, bodily worlds of numerous women in that country all through a period of profound social upheaval. Based totally totally on women’s experiential narratives and set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, Bodies in Crisis illuminates how more than one types of injustice converge in and are contested through women’s bodies. Sutton reveals the bodily scars of neoliberal globalization; women’s negotiation of cultural norms of femininity and beauty; experiences with clandestine, illegal, and unsafe abortions; exposure to and resistance against interpersonal and structural violence; and the role of bodies as tools and vehicles of political action.

Through the lens of girls’s body consciousness in a Global South country, and drawing on multifaceted stories and a politically embedded approach, Bodies in Crisis suggests that social policy, economic systems, cultural ideologies, and political resistance are in the end fleshly matters.

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