Institute of
Latin American Studies
Serie HAINA VIII 2012
Bodies and Borders
in Latin America
Cuerpos y Fronteras
en América Latina
SERIE HAINA VIII
Bodies and borders in Latin America
8th workshop of Haina – Nordic Network for Gender Studies in Latin America August 2010
Editors: Silje Lundgren, Thaïs Machado-Borges and Charlotta Widmark English language-editing: Anne Cleaves
Correción del castellano: Alejandra Donoso Cover and text processing: Erick Arango Marcano Cover photo: © 2010 Thaïs Machado-Borges
Published with support from Granholms stiftelse and the Swedish Research Council. Published by the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, in collaboration with Red Haina/ School of Global Studies, Regional Studies: Latin America, University of Gothenburg.
© 2012 The authors All rights reserved ISBN 978-91-637-0871-8 ISSN 1403-3933
Contents
IntroductionSilje Lundgren, Thaïs Machado-Borges & Charlotta Widmark 3
1. Cheiro bom, cheiro ruim – On bodies, senses, and social
classifications
Thaïs Machado-Borges 7
2. The fluidity of sexual preference and identity: A challenge for social movements and AIDS prevention programs in Brazil
Maj-Lis Follér & Simone Monteiro 15
3. Shaking that ass: Reggaetón as an embodiment of “low culture” to
mark difference and privilege in contemporary Havana
Silje Lundgren 31
4. El mundo femenino en la “antipoesía” de Nicanor Parra
Hólmfríđur Garđarsdóttir & Soffía Jóhannessdóttir 51 5. Cuerpos grotescos en la narrativa de Washington Cucurto
Débora Rottenberg (not available online) 71
6. Labor organizing among women workers in maquiladoras: Crossing
the border of gender and class in thecases of Matamoros, Mexico, and San Marcos, El Salvador
Edmé Domínguez R. & Cirila Quintero 77
7. The impact of guerrilla participation on K’iche’ women’s
collective identity formation process
Tine Destrooper 97
8. Embodied plurinational identities in the urban highlands of Bolivia
Charlotta Widmark 115
Women, indigenous, poor? The construction of gender in Latin America from the perspective of intersectionality
Introduction 130
9. Intersectionality in Latin America? The possibilities of intersectional analysis in Latin American studies and study of religion
Elina Vuola 131
10. How to study race, class, and gender in Latin American literature? Some perspectives for applying the concept of intersectionality as a strategic approach in the Cuban narrative
Auli Leskinen (not available online) 153
11. Extending the dimensions of ethnicity and gender in the indigenist prose of Rosario Castellanos
