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Plastic bodies : sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil /
In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national ident...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham:
Duke University Press,
c2016.
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| Series: | Experimental futures.
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Table of Contents:
- Plastic bodies
- Managing the inside, out: menstrual blood and bodily dys-appearance
- Is menstruation natural?: contemporary rationales of menstrual management
- Sexing hormones
- Hormonal biopolitics: from population control to self-control
- Sex hormones: making drugs, forging efficacies
- Limits that do not foreclose.