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This study unravels the real dynamics at stake within the Lebanese
Madame/Sri Lankan housemaid relationship. Unraveled in this book
are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid
relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese
women who hire housemaids - Madames - are an exception, what has
become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to
control each and every aspect of their employees' lives. For their
part, Sri Lankan housemaids are not merely passive victims. Away
from direct provocation and first-hand repercussions, they try to
deflect what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'symbolic violence'. These
attempts at 'everyday forms of resistance', as defined by James
Scott, can help loosen their employers' grip. Yet, as this
unprecedented study shows, the Madame/housemaid relationship and
the rules that govern it remain under the managerial hold of the
Madame.
This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and
emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in
Latin America. Considering the complex and even contradictory
social processes that the region is experiencing today, many Latin
American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand
our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new
possibilities for the future. This tendency has shown such a
specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that
it compels us to focus more deeply on its own arguments, methods,
and critical contributions. This volume features essays that
explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking
about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding
of, gender, sexuality and politics.
Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion
politics in Latin America's Southern Cone, with lessons and
insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region's recent
history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this
edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current
democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay,
the book's contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion
through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes,
and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a
multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions
illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health
aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics,
digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building,
affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement
dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social
inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights
struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis,
from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the
home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape
individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for
students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin
America, gender and sexuality, and women's rights.
Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion
politics in Latin America's Southern Cone, with lessons and
insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region's recent
history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this
edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current
democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay,
the book's contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion
through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes,
and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a
multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions
illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health
aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics,
digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building,
affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement
dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social
inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights
struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis,
from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the
home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape
individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for
students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin
America, gender and sexuality, and women's rights.
This book emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and
emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality in
Latin America. Considering the complex and even contradictory
social processes that the region is experiencing today, many Latin
American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand
our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new
possibilities for the future. This tendency has shown such a
specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that
it compels us to focus more deeply on its own arguments, methods,
and critical contributions. This volume features essays that
explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking
about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding
of, gender, sexuality and politics.
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