{"product_id":"virtually-virgins-9780804747561","title":"Virtually Virgins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVirtuallly Virgins\u003c\/i\u003e is a detailed, intimate ethnography of the cancers that afflict the social environment and the social body--real and metaphoric....Because this book is written in accessible language with careful and respectful works and a sense of unapologetic caring and competence, anthropologists should read, use it in classes, and recommend it.\"---American Ethnologist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: Culture, Gender, and Ethnography  2. The Ilha: Life in a Brazilian Shantytown  14  3. \"A Woman Has to Stay in the House\": Gender and Sexuality     in the Ilha   27  4. Sexuality and Risk: Biomedical Constructions of     Brasileira Sexuality  40  5. Sexuality as Survival: Favelada Constructions of     Women's Sexuality    55  6. Expedient Boundaries: Security and Agency     in the Ilha   76  7. Rearranging Risk: Local Understandings     of the Pap Smear    89  8. \"I've Eaten so Many Good Men SinceYou Left\":     Liberdade, Resistance, and Ambivalence in the Ilha  97  9. \"You Get it if You Go out Looking for a Man\":     Cervical Cancer and Stigma   118  10. Living with Inflammation, Dying from Cancer,     and Curing an Incurable Disease  135  11. Some Survivors    156          Appendix One: Methodology     160  Appendix Two: Economic Data for the Sample of  Women with Cancer      163  Appendix Three: Impact of Screening Services on  Cervical Cancer Morbidity and Mortality  165  Appendix Four: Nonbiomedical Forms of Healing.  169    Notes     177  Works Cited     193  Index     205","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405554721111,"sku":"9780804747561","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804747561.jpg?v=1730492812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virtually-virgins-9780804747561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}