Plastic Bodies : Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sanabria, Emilia, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
Anthropologie medicale > Bresil.
Hormones sexuelles steroïdiennes > Bresil.
Menstruation > Bresil.
Gesundheit
Empfängnisverhütung
Hormon
Körper
Menstruation
Menstruation > Social aspects.
Menstrual regulation.
Hormones, Sex.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
Extraction menstruelle > Bresil > Salvador.
Menstruation > Aspect social > Bresil > Salvador.
Hormones sexuelles.
Gonadal Steroid Hormones
Menstruation > drug effects
Menstrual regulation > Brazil > Salvador.
Menstruation > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Contraceptive drugs > Health aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Menstruation > Brazil > Salvador > Prevention.
Bahia
Brazil > Salvador.
Brazil
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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