Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil by Lisa Beljuli Brown

Description: Body Parts on Planet Slum by Lisa Beljuli Brown This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into womens use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Based on a years 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. Author Biography Lisa Beljuli Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She gained her PhD in social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge. Table of Contents Foreword 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 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 Brazils provinces. -Liz Gunner, Psychology in Society Promotional A fascinating look into how women use soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment. Long Description Based on a years 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. Review Quote 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 Brazils provinces. -Liz Gunner, Psychology in Society Promotional "Headline" A fascinating look into how women use soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment. Details ISBN0857287974 Author Lisa Beljuli Brown Short Title BODY PARTS ON PLANET SLUM FIRS Publisher Anthem Press Edition Description First Edition, Series Key Issues in Modern Sociology Language English ISBN-10 0857287974 ISBN-13 9780857287977 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 306.4 Publication Date 2011-10-01 Pages 182 Year 2011 Subtitle Women and Telenovelas in Brazil Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Imprint Anthem Press UK Release Date 2011-10-01 NZ Release Date 2011-10-01 Alternative 9780857284464 Illustrations 5+ images and tables Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2011-09-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:39077602;

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