Virtually virgins : sexual strategies and cervical cancer in Recife, Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gregg, Jessica L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Cervix uteri > Cancer > Brazil > Recife. Women > Brazil > Recife > Sexual behavior. Social medicine > Brazil > Recife. Women > Brazil > Recife > Social conditions. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms > etiology > Brazil. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms > psychology > Brazil. Papillomavirus Infections > complications > Brazil. Sexual Behavior > Brazil. Socioeconomic Factors > Brazil. Women's Health > Brazil.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Culture, gender, and ethnography
The Ilha: life in a Brazilian shantytown
"A woman has to stay in the house": gender and sexuality in the Ilha
Sexuality and risk: biomedical constructions of Brasileira sexuality
Sexuality as survival: Favelada constructions of women's sexuality
Expedient boundaries: security and agency in the Ilha
Rearranging risk: local understandings of the pap smear
"I've eaten so many good men since you left": liberdade, resistance and ambivalence in the Ilha
"You get it if you go out looking for a man": cervical cancer and stigma
Living with inflammation, dying from cancer, and curing
An incurable disease
Some survivors.