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Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention in Africa, affecting over one million women across the global south. Western-funded hospitals have sprung up, offering surgical sutures that ostensibly allow women who suffer from obstetric fistula to return to their communities in full health. Journalists, NGO staff, celebrities, and some physicians have crafted a stock narrative around this injury, depicting afflicted women as victims of a backward culture who have their fortunes dramatically reversed by Western aid. With Beyond Surgery, medical anthropologist Anita Hannig unsettles this picture for the first time and reveals the complicated truth behind the idea of biomedical intervention as quick-fix salvation. Through her in-depth ethnography of two repair and rehabilitation centers operating in Ethiopia, Hannig takes the reader deep into a world inside hospital walls, where women recount stories of loss and belonging, shame and delight. As she chronicles the lived experiences of fistula patients in clinical treatment, Hannig explores the danger of labeling "culture" the culprit, showing how this common argument ignores the larger problem of insufficient medical access in rural Africa. Beyond Surgery portrays the complex social outcomes of surgery in an effort to deepen our understanding of medical missions in Africa, expose cultural biases, and clear the path toward more effective ways of delivering care to those who need it most.

Medical anthropology --- Fistula, Vesico-vaginal --- Treatment --- Social aspects --- Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. --- Christianity. --- Ethiopia. --- Western aid. --- biomedicine. --- culture. --- ethnography. --- hospital. --- maternal health. --- obstetric fistula. --- structural violence. --- surgery. --- Fistula, Vesicovaginal

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Tracing the lives of four women as they came of age in revolutionary-era Nicaragua and later immigrated to Italy, this book examines social agency and its limits in the context of present-day Latin America and Europe.

Nicaraguans --- Women immigrants --- Women --- Social conditions. --- Nicaragua --- Italy --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Four Women’s Lives. --- Immigration. --- Italy. --- Nicaragua. --- Oral History. --- Revolution. --- Social Mobility. --- Structural Violence. --- Structured Agency.

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Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women's lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma.

Women prisoners --- Opioid abuse --- Social aspects --- Treatment --- addiction. --- crime and punishment. --- drug addiction. --- drug treatment. --- drug use. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- gender inequality. --- healing. --- incarceration. --- jail. --- justice system. --- justice. --- law and order. --- legal issues. --- locked up. --- massachusetts. --- medical anthropology. --- opioid epidemic. --- opioids. --- prison system. --- punishment. --- recovery. --- social policy. --- structural violence. --- substance abuse disorder. --- substance abuse. --- treatment programs. --- women behind bars. --- women in prison.

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Aggressiveness --- Violence --- Violent crimes --- Aggression --- Behavior --- Agressivité --- Crimes violents --- Aggressiveness. --- Violence. --- Violent crimes. --- Aggression. --- Périodiques. --- Aggressions --- Violent behavior --- Aggression (Psychology) --- Aggressive behavior --- Aggressiveness (Psychology) --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Assaultive Behavior --- Atrocities --- Behavior, Assaultive --- Acceptance Process --- Acceptance Processes --- Behaviors --- Process, Acceptance --- Processes, Acceptance --- Biological Warfare --- Riots --- Warfare --- Crime Victims --- Social psychology --- Psychology --- Defensiveness (Psychology) --- Fighting (Psychology) --- Toughness (Personality trait) --- Crime --- Behavior. --- Structural Violence --- Violence, Structural --- Interpersonal Violence --- Violent Crime --- Crime, Violent --- Interpersonal Violences --- Violence, Interpersonal --- Violences, Interpersonal --- Violent Crimes

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This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice.

Sex. --- Equality. --- Social justice. --- Social action. --- Ethnicity. --- Sexualité --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Justice sociale --- Action sociale --- Ethnicité --- Gender. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Equality --- Justice --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Social policy --- Social problems --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- african americans. --- anthropology. --- cultural history. --- essay collection. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic studies. --- gender studies. --- hispanic experience. --- historical perspective. --- hiv aids. --- interdisciplinary perspective. --- koreans. --- nonfiction essays. --- psychology. --- public health. --- racial minorities. --- sex and gender. --- sexual coercion. --- sexual health. --- sexual inequality. --- sexuality. --- social analysis. --- social justice. --- social oppression. --- social science. --- social scientists. --- sociology. --- structural violence. --- substance abuse.