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Plastic Bodies : Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sanabria, Emilia, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822374190