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BL
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638361
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Brown, Lisa Beljuli
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| Title & Author
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Body parts on planet slum : : women and telenovelas in Brazil /\ Lisa Beljuli Brown
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Anthem Press,, 2011
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| Series Statement
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Key issues in modern sociology
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xxv, 156 p. :: ill. :; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780857287977
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: 0857287974
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Chapter 1. Theodicy and Ideology: 'Everybody Needs an Ideology to Live' -- Chapter 2. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth; But in the Meantime They Shall Watch Telenovelas -- Chapter 3. Suffering Soaps; Fragmented Bodies -- Chapter 4. The Politics of the Vagina -- Chapter 5. The Redemptive Womb -- Chapter 6. The Invisible Back
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| Abstract
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Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, Body Parts on Planet Slum reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence -- their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment
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Poor women-- Brazil-- Social conditions
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Slums-- Brazil
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Television soap operas-- Brazil
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| LC Classification
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HQ1542.B76 2011
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