Laughter Out of Place
by Goldstein, Donna M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary
Laughter Out of Place provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among women living in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | xi | ||
| Foreword | xiii | ||
| Acknowledgments | xix | ||
| Introduction: Hard Laughter | 1 | (17) | |
| 1. Laughter "Out of Place" | 18 | (40) | |
| 2. The Aesthetics of Domination: Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic workers | 58 | (44) | |
| 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna | 102 | (34) | |
| 4. No Time for Childhood | 136 | (38) | |
| 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro | 174 | (52) | |
| 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire | 226 | (33) | |
| 7. What's So Funny about Rape? | 259 | (16) | |
| Notes | 275 | (38) | |
| Glossary | 313 | (8) | |
| References | 321 | (20) | |
| Index | 341 |
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