Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, by Ronnie Shepard &amp; Shir Lerman Ginzburg (eds.)

Diana J Fox

doi:10.1163/22134360-09501013

Abstract

(Cloth US$90.00) Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean brings together scholars and practitioners heralding from cultural and medical anthropology, social work, sociology, social psychology, public health, and other related disciplines, in a collection that exemplifies the combined insights of intersectionality theory and engaged ethnography. Sham Estelle Brown shows how parents of children with sickle cell disease in Guadeloupe do not attend a major fundraiser on World Sickle Cell Day because people in Guadeloupe are concerned about being seen and labeled as 'the parent with the sick kid' (p. 93). [...]the gendered conceptualization of sickle cell disease underscores the ways in which power, class, race, gender, and culture (p. 99)-shaped by the island's history of colonialism and slavery- impact peoples' understandings of who gets sick and why.

Highlights

Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean brings together scholars and practitioners heralding from cultural and medical anthropology, social work, sociology, social psychology, public health, and other related disciplines, in a collection that exemplifies the combined insights of intersectionality theory and engaged ethnography
As I write in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, its relevance could not be clearer: the precarity of many of the populations illuminated in the collection—commercial sex workers, prisoners, lgbtq persons—is most certainly exacerbated by the current crisis
As noted by editors Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman Ginzburg, the essays are conceptually unified through their attention to “gendered health, the embodiment of identity, societal structures and social inequality, and the ways in which gender, health, and society intersect on a daily basis” (p. 1)

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Ronnie Shepard & Shir Lerman Ginzburg (eds.), Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean brings together scholars and practitioners heralding from cultural and medical anthropology, social work, sociology, social psychology, public health, and other related disciplines, in a collection that exemplifies the combined insights of intersectionality theory and engaged ethnography. The ten chapters are linked through a conceptual framework that demonstrates how social, economic, and political inequities structure health disparities.

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