| Contents |
Introduction: Culture, gender, and ethnography -- The Ilha: life in a Brazilian shantytown -- "A woman has to stay in the house": gender and sexuality in the Ilha -- Sexuality and risk: biomedical constructions of Brasileira sexuality -- Sexuality as survival: Favelada constructions of women's sexuality -- Expedient boundaries: security and agency in the Ilha -- Rearranging risk: local understandings of the pap smear -- "I've eaten so many good men since you left": liberdade, resistance and ambivalence in the Ilha -- "You get it if you go out looking for a man": cervical cancer and stigma -- Living with inflammation, dying from cancer, and curing -- An incurable disease -- Some survivors. |
| Bibliography note | "Works cited": p. [193]-203. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gregg, Jessica L. Virtually virgins. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003 |
| LCCN | 2003001291 |
| ISBN | 0804747555 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780804747554 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0804747563 (paper : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780804747561 (paper : alk. paper) |
