Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil (Experimental Futures)

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In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social members of the family and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have change into central to recent understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Through interviews with ladies and doctors; observations in clinics, research centers and pharmacies; and analyses of contraceptive marketing, Sanabria traces the genealogy of menstrual suppression, from its use in population regulate strategies within the global South to its remarketing as a tradition of pharmaceutical self-enhancement couched in neoliberal notions of choice. She links the widespread practice of menstrual suppression and other related elective medical interventions to Bahian views of the body as a malleable object that requires constant work. Given this bodily plasticity, and its potentially limitless character, the book considers how you can assess the values attributed to bodily interventions. Plastic Bodies will probably be of interest to all the ones working in medical anthropology, gender studies, and sexual and reproductive health.
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