Plastic Bodies

Sanabria Emilia Sanabria

Description

In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Through interviews with women 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 control strategies in the global South to its remarketing as a practice 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 ways to assess the values attributed to bodily interventions. Plastic Bodies will be of interest to all those working in medical anthropology, gender studies, and sexual and reproductive health.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Women's health

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 21 avril 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374190
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

P L A S T I C

B O D I E S

E X P E R I M E N TA L F U T U R E S Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices A series edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Durham and London 2016

Plastic Bodies

Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

Emilia Sanabria

©  Dûé Uéŝy Péŝŝ A ŝ éŝéé Pé  é Ué Sàéŝ ôF Aéçà ô àç-éé àé ♾ Déŝé y Nààé . S Tyéŝé  Qûààà Pô y Tŝé ïôàô Syŝéŝ, ïç.

ày ôF Côéŝŝ Cààô--Pûçàô Dàà Nàéŝ: Sààà, Eà, [àé] àûô. Té: Pàŝç ôéŝ : ŝé ôôéŝ à éŝûà ŝûéŝŝô  Bàz / Eà Sààà. Oé éŝ: Eééà ûûéŝ. Déŝçô: Dûà : Dûé Uéŝy Péŝŝ, . | Sééŝ: Eééà ûûéŝ: éçôôçà éŝ, ŝçéîç àŝ, àôôôçà ôçéŝ | ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. ïéîéŝ: lccn | Isbn  (àçôé : à. àé) | Isbn  (. : à. àé) | Isbn  (é-ôô) Sûéçŝ: lcsH: Méŝûàô—Bàz—Sààô—Pééô. | ôôéŝ, Sé. | Côàçéé ûŝ—éà àŝéçŝ—Bàz— Sààô. | Méŝûàô—Sôçà àŝéçŝ—Bàz—Sààô. | Méŝûà éûàô—Bàz—Sààô. Càŝŝîçàô: lcc qp .s  | dd c ./—ç lc éçô àààé à ://çç.ôç.ô/

Côé à: Dà P. Wàé, P ŝéŝé ôôyé ô ôà çôàçééŝ, . Méà, àŝç, ôô, 1∕4 . × 1∕8 . G ôF Dà P. Wàé. ïàé çôûéŝy ôF Nàôà Mûŝéû ôF Aéçà ŝôy, Kéé E. Bé Céé.

TO M Y M OT H E R

C O N T E N T S

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Plastic Bodies 1

1. Managing the Inside, Out Menstrual Blood and Bodily DysAppearance 43

2. Is Menstruation Natural? Contemporary Rationales of Menstrual Management 71

3. Sexing Hormones 105

4. Hormonal Biopolitics From Population Control to SelfControl 129

5. Sex Hormones Making Drugs, Forging Efficacies 159

Conclusion Limits That Do Not Foreclose 187

Notes 207 References 223 Index 241

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

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