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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מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Sanabria, Emilia
פורמט: Printed Book
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Durham: Duke University Press, c2016.
סדרה:Experimental futures.
נושאים:
Contraceptive drugs > Health aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Hormones, Sex.
Menstrual regulation > Brazil > Salvador.
Menstruation > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Research > Methodology > Brazil > Salvador
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.

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