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ISBN 13: 9780520235977
ISBN 10: 0520235975
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/01/2003
Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Laughter Out of Place

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Laughter Out of Place provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among women living in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s.

List of Illustrations	xi
Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction: Hard Laughter	1	(17)
1. Laughter "Out of Place"	18	(40)
2. The Aesthetics of Domination: Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic workers	58	(44)
3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna	102	(34)
4. No Time for Childhood	136	(38)
5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro	174	(52)
6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire	226	(33)
7. What's So Funny about Rape?	259	(16)
Notes	275	(38)
Glossary	313	(8)
References	321	(20)
Index	341