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Women in Pain This page intentionally left blank Women in Pain Gender and Morbidity in Mexico Kaja Finkler PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 1994 by Kaja Finkler All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Finkler, Kaja. Women in pain : gender and morbidity in Mexico / Kaja Finkler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8122-3243-7. — 0-8122-1527-3 (pbk.) i. Women—Health and hygiene—Mexico. 2. Women—Health and hygiene—Social aspects—Mexico. 3. Women—Health and hygiene— Mexico—Case studies. 4. Women—Health and hygiene—Social aspects—Mexico—Case studies. 5. Sex role—Mexico. I. Title. RA564.85.Fs6 1994 6i4.4'27z'o82—dczo 93-32972 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 32 In memory of my mother, an extraordinary woman ahead of her time, and to my father, who perished ahead of his time This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Part I: The Problem 1 1 Introduction 3 2 The Nature of Sickness 11 3 The Nature of Gender 25 4 Gender and the Nature of Sickness 40 Part II: The Context 51 5 Gender, Culture, and Society in Mexico 53 6 An Aggregate Profile of a Sick Population of Women 74 Part III: Women's Lives and Women's Pains 89 7 Margarita: A Women in Search of Individuation 91 8 Alicia: A Mother and a Mistress 114 9 Julia: A Drunken Husband 125 10 Rebecca: A Woman on the Verge of Disintegration 35 11 Juana: In Search of Dignity Amid a Garbage Dum 145 12 Carlota: From Proletarian to Housewife 153 13 Josefina: "All My Life I Worked Very Hard" 163 14 Susana: A Woman Who Ventured into the Public 177 Domain 15 Norma: "I Have Found God" 183 viii Contents 16 Maria: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire 191 17 Conclusion 203 Bibliography 211 Glossary of Spanish Words and Phrases 231 Index 235 Tables 5.1 Responses by gender to the question, "Who are the 61 people closest to you?" 6.1 Statistically significant differences in life events between 77 healthy and sick population sample (SPS) women 6.2 Most common sickness attributions, by gender 79 6.3 Physicians' orders and indications to patients, by gender 83
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