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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanabria, Emilia, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822374190

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