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

by Barbara Sutton

***Winner of the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association***

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.

Genres: Feminism, School

270 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2010

Reviews

[♥Meagan♥ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting, but dry read. It read like 200 pages of a research article. It makes for the reading to be very boring. It was for school, so I had to read it, but I don't think I would have finished otherwise.