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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women’s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Trade Review‘This bold study, moving between feminism, media studies and a social theory of global poverty […] demonstrates that the diet of telenovelas destroys and yet sustains the women who constitute the poorest of the urban poor in the most “African” of Brazil’s provinces.’ —Liz Gunner, ‘Psychology in Society’
Table of ContentsForeword by Juliet Mitchell; Introduction; 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; Final Feliz; Illustrations; Table: Women Respondents; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
