The sociology of gender in Latin American : from social mothers to sexual rights / / Gioconda Herrera -- Violence against women : contributions from Latin America /Montserrat Sagot -- Contributions from the sociology of care in Latin America /Karina Batthyány -- Gender and work in contemporary Latin America /Erynn Masi de Casanova -- Medical sociology in Latin America /Roberto Castro -- The trajectory and identity of sociology of health in Brazil /Everardo Duarte Nunes and Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo -- A sociological approach to the study of alternative and complementary medicine in Argentina /Betina Freidin and Matías Ballesteros -- Sexual stratification and sexual agency among low-income girls in an Andean city /Carmen Yon Leau -- Mexican women and decision making in health : the practical sense /María del Carmen Castro Vásquez and Patricia Aranda Gallego -- The sociology of crime and violence in Latin America /Artuo Alvarado -- Sociology of fear of crime in Latin America /Gabriel Kessler and Alejandra Otamendi -- Homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean /Alberto Concha-Eastman and others -- Arming the Americas /Katherine Aguirre and Robert Muggah -- Urban violence and the spatial question : the built environmental correlates in (in)security in Latin American cities /Diane E. Davis -- Border violence in Latin America : an expression of complementary asymmetries /Fernando Carrión-Mena and Markus Gottsbacher -- Illicit drugs and organized crime in Latin America : new scholarship and the future of alternative policies /Angélica Durán-Martínez --