Body Parts on Planet Slum - (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) by Lisa Beljuli Brown (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism.
- About the Author: Lisa Beljuli Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 182 Pages
- Social Science, Popular Culture
- Series Name: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
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About the Book
This 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.
Book Synopsis
This 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.
Review Quotes
'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'
About the Author
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.