Subtitle: Culture,
Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina Author:
Barbara Sutton Subject:Sociology,Women's
Studies, Latin
American Studies Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4740-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4739-8 Pages:
288 pages Publication Date: March 2010
Awards:
Winner of the 2011 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldua book prize
Praise:
“A masterful study on embodiment and modes of feminity in 21st century Argentina. It is accessible enough to be used with upper-level undergraduates even as it is detailed and complex enough to be essential for specialists in Argentina, a difficult balance which Sutton nonetheless achieves flawlessly.”
—Anthropological Quarterly, 2011
"I rarely say this about academic books but
I had a hard time putting this one down! Sutton has authored an
exciting and engaging contribution to the literature on women and
social movements."
—Michelle D. Bonner, University of Victoria
"Bodies in Crisis is one of
the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and
resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original
work."
—Javier Auyero, author of Flammable:
Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
Description:
Born and raised in Argentina and still
maintaining significant ties to the area, Barbara Sutton examines the
complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in that
country during a period of profound social upheaval. Based primarily 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 multiple forms 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 women’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 ultimately fleshly
matters.
About the Author:
BARBARA SUTTON is an assistant professor of women’s studies
at the University at Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of
sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies. She
is the coeditor of Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender,
Race, and Militarization (Rutgers University Press)
