UID:
almahu_9949865750802882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781351810890
,
1351810898
,
9781351810906
,
1351810901
,
9781351810883
,
135181088X
,
9781315210841
,
1315210843
,
113862814X
,
9781138628144
Content:
Combining biomedical, psychological, and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous (and) peasant women in the Andean region, this book raises new questions surrounding humanness and the normalisation of sexual violence. Through original ethnographical research, the author analyses Andean understandings of incest, medical positivist practices, as well as the psychiatric "treatment" of incestuous and gender-based violence. The book examines the implications that psychiatric institutionalisation within the context of interethnic, gender, and class schemes has on what it means to be human. It also draws on a theoretical framework in order to understand how discourses shape, and are simultaneously problematized, by individual experiences of sexual violence and incest. Intergenerational incestuous violence against women is not necessarily an exceptional event, but can be an ordinary process, one where through the articulation of biomedical and indigenous medicine, as well as indigenous and mestizo forms of administration of political power, women as subjects can become possible. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in gender-based violence, as well as mental-health practitioners and academics in Latin American studies, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology
Note:
Introduction -- Gender, ethnicity and class in Bolivia's national psychiatric hospital -- Humanness as a continuum -- Las Condenadas : from indigenous traditional medicine to psychiatric biomedicine -- Conclusions -- Appendice -- Photographs -- References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Borda-Niño-Wildman, Adriana Carolina. Medicalization of incest and abuse. New York : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138628144
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315210841
