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Death Without Weeping - The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback, Revised)
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Death Without Weeping - The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback, Revised)
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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When
assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what
happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an
account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death
that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside
"favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the
modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked
on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of
shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work,
cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the
most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most
disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love,
as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a
luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot,
that their infants will live. The author also wrote "Saints,
Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".
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