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Plastic bodies : sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil / Emilia Sanabria.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanabria, Emilia, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menstruation--Brazil--Salvador--Prevention.
- Menstruation.
- Hormones, Sex.
- Contraceptive drugs--Health aspects--Brazil--Salvador.
- Contraceptive drugs.
- Menstruation--Social aspects--Brazil--Salvador.
- Menstrual regulation--Brazil--Salvador.
- Menstrual regulation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374190
- 0822374196
- OCLC:
- 1139385467
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