Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean

Ronnie Shepard is adjunct professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, Goodwin College, and the University of Connecticut.Shir Lerman Ginzburg is project director in the Department of Pediatrics and the Preventive Intervention Research Center for Child Health (PIRC) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

“A fascinating volume and invaluable resource, Gender, Health and Society in Latin America contains a collection of case studies from a diverse group of scholars exploring important intersectional questions about gender and health in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors use case studies, ethnographic research, and theory to create locally-defined critiques of gender and health that take into account such complex questions as race, sexuality, reproductive rights, (dis)abilities, age, and class. I highly recommend this book to any scholar interested in gaining a nuanced understanding of gender, health and society in Latin America and the Caribbean today. “

• Introduction: Gender, Health, and Society Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman GinzburgChapter 1 Freedom in Practice: Art Making and the Politics ofWomen’s Incarceration in Argentina Leyla SavloffChapter 2 Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, andSame-Sex Performances Lauren M. Pérez-BonillaChapter 3 Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and BodilyCapital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Tia TyndalChapter 4 Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and GenderedPower in Puerto Rico Adriana M. Garriga-López and Carlos E. Rodríguez-DíazChapter 5 Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Diseasein Guadeloupe Shan-Estelle BrownChapter 6 Convergent Therapies in Peru’s Amazon: Enriching MentalWellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy Olivia Marcus and Evgenia FotiouChapter 7 Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender andHealth in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions Ronnie Anthony Shepard and Shir Lerman GinzburgChapter 8 “Here to Stay in the Bay!”: The Politics of Vestibularity,Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and theWork of Recognition Antwann Michael SimpkinsChapter 9 Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the MentalHealth Impacts of Forced Migration Anayeli Marcos, Ana Vidina Hernández, Dora Gonzalez, andLaurie Cook HeffronChapter 10 Access to Health Care, Institutional Violence, and Resistance ofFemale Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Marco Aurélio Prado and Reynel Chaparro