Vania Smith‐oka
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vania Smith‐oka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vania |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith‐oka |
| SIGNATURE | OKA V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries
Bodies are useful instruments for understanding the reproduction of inequalities. In this article, we investigate why and how bodily, social, intimate, and physical boundaries are crossed and what this can tell us about individual and social bodies. We unpack how seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, or feeling and being felt are conditioned in very particular ways by the broader political economy. Participants in this ethnographic r…
Fallen Uterus
This article focuses on rural indigenous Mexican women's experiences with uterine prolapse, particularly the illness's expression of social suffering. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted during 2004-2005 and 2007 in a Nahua village in the state of Veracruz, the article analyzes the multifactorial nature of women's social suffering. Results show that the roots of uterine displacement for the women lie in lack of social relations and in perc…
Managing Labor and Delivery among Impoverished Populations in Mexico
Birthing experiences for low-income and marginalized women have frequently been framed within explanatory models of authoritative knowledge and power dynamics. Many of these explanatory models have pointed out the structural violence inherent in the biomedical model of birth. The research on which this article is based suggests that clinicians' stressful work environment and class-based stereotypes of low-income women resulted in the routinizing …
Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, editors
Managing Labor and Delivery among Impoverished Populations in Mexico
Birthing experiences for low-income and marginalized women have frequently been framed within explanatory models of authoritative knowledge and power dynamics. Many of these explanatory models have pointed out the structural violence inherent in the biomedical model of birth. The research on which this article is based suggests that clinicians' stressful work environment and class-based stereotypes of low-income women resulted in the routinizing …
Fallen Uterus
This article focuses on rural indigenous Mexican women's experiences with uterine prolapse, particularly the illness's expression of social suffering. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted during 2004-2005 and 2007 in a Nahua village in the state of Veracruz, the article analyzes the multifactorial nature of women's social suffering. Results show that the roots of uterine displacement for the women lie in lack of social relations and in perc…
Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries
Bodies are useful instruments for understanding the reproduction of inequalities. In this article, we investigate why and how bodily, social, intimate, and physical boundaries are crossed and what this can tell us about individual and social bodies. We unpack how seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, or feeling and being felt are conditioned in very particular ways by the broader political economy. Participants in this ethnographic r…
Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, editors
Managing Labor and Delivery among Impoverished Populations in Mexico
Birthing experiences for low-income and marginalized women have frequently been framed within explanatory models of authoritative knowledge and power dynamics. Many of these explanatory models have pointed out the structural violence inherent in the biomedical model of birth. The research on which this article is based suggests that clinicians' stressful work environment and class-based stereotypes of low-income women resulted in the routinizing …
Fallen Uterus
This article focuses on rural indigenous Mexican women's experiences with uterine prolapse, particularly the illness's expression of social suffering. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted during 2004-2005 and 2007 in a Nahua village in the state of Veracruz, the article analyzes the multifactorial nature of women's social suffering. Results show that the roots of uterine displacement for the women lie in lack of social relations and in perc…
Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries
Bodies are useful instruments for understanding the reproduction of inequalities. In this article, we investigate why and how bodily, social, intimate, and physical boundaries are crossed and what this can tell us about individual and social bodies. We unpack how seeing and being seen, touching and being touched, or feeling and being felt are conditioned in very particular ways by the broader political economy. Participants in this ethnographic r…
Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (2 works) · Politics (2 works)