Bodies in Crisis

Winner of the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association.

This prize is awarded in "recognition for groundbreaking scholarship in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship"

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Reviews

"I rarely say this about academic books but I had a hard time putting this one down! Sutton has authored an exciting and engaging contribution to the literature on women and social movements." — Michelle D. Bonner, University of Victoria

"Bodies in Crisis is one of the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original work." — Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin

"Barbara Sutton opens her masterful study on embodiment and modes of femininity in 21st century Argentina with descriptions from the height of the economic and political crisis that shook the country in December 2001. Using this moment as a pivotal focus, Sutton explores the connections between the body, the economy, and political protest, particularly among women... She effectively manages to show the “workings of converging flows of power” (191), through a careful attention to intersecting issues of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual identity. Yet though she never fails to capture this complexity, the book remains delightfully readable and thoroughly engaging while making a valuable contribution to the fields of Latin American and gender studies." — Karen Ann Faulk, Carnegie Mellon University, Anthropological Quarterly.

"Argentine-born and raised, sociologist Barbara Sutton provides a unique account of the social and political conjuncture in her country at the beginning of the twenty-first century that is both a brilliant attempt to theorize women’s lives and struggles by bringing the body clearly “back” into the picture, and a rendering of a concrete story of oppression and resistance in which women come to life as embodied (and rational/reflective and emotional) subjects of history." — Miriam Adelman, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Contemporary Sociology .