Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil

This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

Author: Lisa Beljuli Brown
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780857287977

About the Author

Lisa Beljuli Brown is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She gained her PhD in social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge.