UID:
edocfu_9959677560402883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-7419-6
Series Statement:
Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-6161-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-6142-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Llibres electrònics
DOI:
10.1515/9780822374190
