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Marked Women - The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela (Hardcover)
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Marked Women - The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela (Hardcover)
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Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in
Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of
it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor
hygiene-coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad
morals-as risk factors for the disease. Drawing on in-depth
fieldwork conducted in two oncology hospitals in Caracas, Marked
Women is an ethnography of women's experiences with cervical
cancer, the doctors and nurses who treat them, and the public
health officials and administrators who set up intervention
programs to combat the disease. Rebecca G. Martinez contextualizes
patient-doctor interactions within a historical arc of Venezuelan
nationalism, modernity, neoliberalism, and Chavismo to understand
the scientific, social, and political discourses surrounding the
disease. The women, marked as deviant for their sexual
transgressions, are not only characterized as engaging in
unhygienic, uncultured, and promiscuous behaviors, but also become
embodiments of these very behaviors. Ultimately, Marked Women
explores how epidemiological risk is a socially, culturally, and
historically embedded process-and how this enables cervical cancer
to stigmatize women as socially marginal, burdens on society, and
threats to the "health" of the modern nation.
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