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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.
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