Emilia Sanabria

Plastic Bodies

Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Emilia Sanabria is Maîtresse de conferences in Social Anthropology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361428
• ISBN-10: 0822361426
• Artikelnr.: 43549533

Autorenporträt

Emilia Sanabria is MaÎtresse de conferences in Social Anthropology at the Ecole Normale SupÉrieure de Lyon.

Inhaltsangabe

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