Virtually virgins : sexual strategies and cervical cancer in Recife, Brazil / Jessica L. Gregg.

Author/creator Gregg, Jessica L.
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxviii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Cervix uteri--Cancer. --Brazil. --Recife.
Women--Sexual behavior. --Brazil. --Recife.
Social medicine--Brazil. --Recife.
Women--Brazil. --Recife. --Social conditions.

Contents Introduction: Culture, gender, and ethnography -- The Ilha: life in a Brazilian shantytown -- "A woman has to stay in the house": gender and sexuality in the Ilha -- Sexuality and risk: biomedical constructions of Brasileira sexuality -- Sexuality as survival: Favelada constructions of women's sexuality -- Expedient boundaries: security and agency in the Ilha -- Rearranging risk: local understandings of the pap smear -- "I've eaten so many good men since you left": liberdade, resistance and ambivalence in the Ilha -- "You get it if you go out looking for a man": cervical cancer and stigma -- Living with inflammation, dying from cancer, and curing -- An incurable disease -- Some survivors.
Bibliography note"Works cited": p. [193]-203.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Gregg, Jessica L. Virtually virgins. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003
LCCN 2003001291
ISBN0804747555 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804747554 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804747563 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804747561 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks RC280.U8 G74 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold