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“ignacio llovet”

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  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Transgender Sex Work and Society

    Edited by Larry Nuttbrock ...
    This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

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  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Are Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Being Served in Memphis, Tennessee?

    Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Women in Memphis, Tennessee

    by M. Helena Vanderlei Collins ...
    Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American female survivors of domestic violence.Author M. Helena Vanderlei Collins interviewed ten Mexican immigrant women and seven Mexican American women to investigate ... Read more

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  • Race Migrations

    Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    by Wendy Roth ...
    In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

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  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

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  • Chicana and Chicano Mental Health

    Alma, Mente y Corazón

    by Yvette G. Flores ...
    Series series The Mexican American Experience
    Spirit, mind, and heart—in traditional Mexican health beliefs all three are inherent to maintaining psychological balance. For Mexican Americans, who are both the oldest Latina/o group in the United States as well as some of the most recent arrivals, perceptions of health and illness often reflect a dual belief system that has not always been incorporated in mental health treatments.Chicana and ... Read more

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  • English Language Teaching in South America

    Policy, Preparation and Practices

    Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

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  • Arts and Health Promotion

    Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation

    Edited by J. Hope Corbin, Mariana Sanmartino, Emily Alden Hennessy, Helga Bjørnøy Urke ...
    This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is the first-known text to connect the disparate inter-disciplinary literatures into a coherent volume for health promotion practitioners, researchers, and teachers. It provides a ... Read more

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