L A Rebhun
Biographic Data
| ID | 104025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L A Rebhun |
| GIVEN NAMES | L A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rebhun |
| SIGNATURE | REBHUN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Psychiatry Fails to Understand or Help Women in Canada Much Madness, Divinest Sense: Women’s Stories of Mental Health and Health Care . By Nili Kaplan-Myrth and Lori Hanson. East Lawrenceton, Cana…
An uncertain cure: Living with leprosy in Brazil
Sexuality, Color, and Stigma among Northeast Brazilian Women
Despite its international image as a sexually free-spirited country, local attitudes toward morality of sexual behavior remain complex throughout Brazil, especially in rural areas and the conservative Northeast region. In addition, notwithstanding its official ideology of nonracism, African ancestry as judged through personal appearance (color) constitutes a significant social and economic disadvantage. Using Goffman's idea of "spoiled identity" …
Social Construction of Gay Male Identity in Brazil
Book Review| October 01 2001 SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GAY MALE IDENTITY IN BRAZIL Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil Richard Parker New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi + 288 pp. $85.00 cloth,$22.95 paper L. A. Rebhun L. A. Rebhun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 637–643. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-637 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
For Love and for Money: Romance Urbanizing Northeast Brazil
Rapid Urbanization and the expansion of an unstable capitalist economy have transformed gender relationships in Northeast Brazil. Changes in economic opportunity for women and for men, combined with shifts in informal reciprocal relationships modify power relations between the generations and between the genders. Greater freedom for daughters, combined with ongoing changes in concepts of respectability encourage men to attach discourses of passio…
Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions
Women, alcohol and work: Interactions of gender, ethnicity and occupational culture
Patterns of alcohol use are affected by culture and history and interwined with the rhythms of work life. The 20th century economic shift toward industrial and service jobs coupled with the increasing presence of women in the workplace has revolutionized U.S. women's domestic and public roles [1], and these changes have impacted their drinking behavior [2]. In addition, in a multicultural society like the United States, subcultures, ethnic groups…
Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil
Northeast Brazilian women use the term "swallowing frogs" to describe the act of suppressing anger, hatred, or irritation and of putting up with unfair treatment silently. Most are all too familiar with both these situations, and their anguish finds its expression in folk ailments that embody distress such as evil-eye sickness (mal olhadoj, "nerves" (nervos), shock sickness (susto,), open chest (peito aberto) and blood-boiling bruises. These inte…
A Heart Too Full: The Weight of Love in Northeast Brazil
Chez les femmes bresiliennes de Caruaru, le « mau olhado » (oeil du diable), metaphore exprimant la souffrance liee aux sentiments d'envie et de ressentiment et le « peito aberto » (poitrine ouverte), metaphore exprimant le fardeau affectif que constituent les maris et les enfants pour le coeur des femmes, sont diagnostiques et traites de concert car consideres comme deux faces d'un meme probleme. Afin de proteger les femmes, des rites therapeuti…
Nerves and Emotional Play in Northeast Brazil
Current theory on emotion posits that different cultures' emotional vocabularies constitute sets of glosses for negotiated understandings of interpersonal interaction. Folk illness terms can overlap emotion glosses, as in the case of the Northeast Brazilian folk ailment nervos ("nerves"), associated with anxiety and anger. Working-class women in Northeast Brazil can use their nervos to change others' behavior in social situations in which they ot…
Angels with wet wings won't fly: Maternal sentiment in Brazil and the image of neglect
Mystification of a simple solution: Oral rehydration therapy in Northeast Brazil
Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil
Northeast Brazilian women use the term "swallowing frogs" to describe the act of suppressing anger, hatred, or irritation and of putting up with unfair treatment silently. Most are all too familiar with both these situations, and their anguish finds its expression in folk ailments that embody distress such as evil-eye sickness (mal olhadoj, "nerves" (nervos), shock sickness (susto,), open chest (peito aberto) and blood-boiling bruises. These inte…
Nerves and Emotional Play in Northeast Brazil
Current theory on emotion posits that different cultures' emotional vocabularies constitute sets of glosses for negotiated understandings of interpersonal interaction. Folk illness terms can overlap emotion glosses, as in the case of the Northeast Brazilian folk ailment nervos ("nerves"), associated with anxiety and anger. Working-class women in Northeast Brazil can use their nervos to change others' behavior in social situations in which they ot…
Mystification of a simple solution: Oral rehydration therapy in Northeast Brazil
Women, alcohol and work: Interactions of gender, ethnicity and occupational culture
Patterns of alcohol use are affected by culture and history and interwined with the rhythms of work life. The 20th century economic shift toward industrial and service jobs coupled with the increasing presence of women in the workplace has revolutionized U.S. women's domestic and public roles [1], and these changes have impacted their drinking behavior [2]. In addition, in a multicultural society like the United States, subcultures, ethnic groups…
Sexuality, Color, and Stigma among Northeast Brazilian Women
Despite its international image as a sexually free-spirited country, local attitudes toward morality of sexual behavior remain complex throughout Brazil, especially in rural areas and the conservative Northeast region. In addition, notwithstanding its official ideology of nonracism, African ancestry as judged through personal appearance (color) constitutes a significant social and economic disadvantage. Using Goffman's idea of "spoiled identity" …
A Heart Too Full: The Weight of Love in Northeast Brazil
Chez les femmes bresiliennes de Caruaru, le « mau olhado » (oeil du diable), metaphore exprimant la souffrance liee aux sentiments d'envie et de ressentiment et le « peito aberto » (poitrine ouverte), metaphore exprimant le fardeau affectif que constituent les maris et les enfants pour le coeur des femmes, sont diagnostiques et traites de concert car consideres comme deux faces d'un meme probleme. Afin de proteger les femmes, des rites therapeuti…
For Love and for Money: Romance Urbanizing Northeast Brazil
Rapid Urbanization and the expansion of an unstable capitalist economy have transformed gender relationships in Northeast Brazil. Changes in economic opportunity for women and for men, combined with shifts in informal reciprocal relationships modify power relations between the generations and between the genders. Greater freedom for daughters, combined with ongoing changes in concepts of respectability encourage men to attach discourses of passio…
Angels with wet wings won't fly: Maternal sentiment in Brazil and the image of neglect
Mystification of a simple solution: Oral rehydration therapy in Northeast Brazil
Nerves and Emotional Play in Northeast Brazil
Current theory on emotion posits that different cultures' emotional vocabularies constitute sets of glosses for negotiated understandings of interpersonal interaction. Folk illness terms can overlap emotion glosses, as in the case of the Northeast Brazilian folk ailment nervos ("nerves"), associated with anxiety and anger. Working-class women in Northeast Brazil can use their nervos to change others' behavior in social situations in which they ot…
Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil
Northeast Brazilian women use the term "swallowing frogs" to describe the act of suppressing anger, hatred, or irritation and of putting up with unfair treatment silently. Most are all too familiar with both these situations, and their anguish finds its expression in folk ailments that embody distress such as evil-eye sickness (mal olhadoj, "nerves" (nervos), shock sickness (susto,), open chest (peito aberto) and blood-boiling bruises. These inte…
A Heart Too Full: The Weight of Love in Northeast Brazil
Chez les femmes bresiliennes de Caruaru, le « mau olhado » (oeil du diable), metaphore exprimant la souffrance liee aux sentiments d'envie et de ressentiment et le « peito aberto » (poitrine ouverte), metaphore exprimant le fardeau affectif que constituent les maris et les enfants pour le coeur des femmes, sont diagnostiques et traites de concert car consideres comme deux faces d'un meme probleme. Afin de proteger les femmes, des rites therapeuti…
Women, alcohol and work: Interactions of gender, ethnicity and occupational culture
Patterns of alcohol use are affected by culture and history and interwined with the rhythms of work life. The 20th century economic shift toward industrial and service jobs coupled with the increasing presence of women in the workplace has revolutionized U.S. women's domestic and public roles [1], and these changes have impacted their drinking behavior [2]. In addition, in a multicultural society like the United States, subcultures, ethnic groups…
Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions
For Love and for Money: Romance Urbanizing Northeast Brazil
Rapid Urbanization and the expansion of an unstable capitalist economy have transformed gender relationships in Northeast Brazil. Changes in economic opportunity for women and for men, combined with shifts in informal reciprocal relationships modify power relations between the generations and between the genders. Greater freedom for daughters, combined with ongoing changes in concepts of respectability encourage men to attach discourses of passio…
Social Construction of Gay Male Identity in Brazil
Book Review| October 01 2001 SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GAY MALE IDENTITY IN BRAZIL Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil Richard Parker New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi + 288 pp. $85.00 cloth,$22.95 paper L. A. Rebhun L. A. Rebhun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 637–643. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-637 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
Sexuality, Color, and Stigma among Northeast Brazilian Women
Despite its international image as a sexually free-spirited country, local attitudes toward morality of sexual behavior remain complex throughout Brazil, especially in rural areas and the conservative Northeast region. In addition, notwithstanding its official ideology of nonracism, African ancestry as judged through personal appearance (color) constitutes a significant social and economic disadvantage. Using Goffman's idea of "spoiled identity" …
An uncertain cure: Living with leprosy in Brazil
How Psychiatry Fails to Understand or Help Women in Canada Much Madness, Divinest Sense: Women’s Stories of Mental Health and Health Care . By Nili Kaplan-Myrth and Lori Hanson. East Lawrenceton, Cana…
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