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- Book Title
- Plastic Bodies : Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
- ISBN
- 9780822361428
- Subject Area
- Health & Fitness, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Plastic Bodies : Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Women's Health, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- Experimental Futures Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822361426
ISBN-13
9780822361428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215933785
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Publication Name
Plastic Bodies : Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Women's Health, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Social Science
Series
Experimental Futures Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-039926
Reviews
Plastic Bodies is an extraordinary monograph, produced from a decade of careful engagement with techniques of place-making, othering, and ethnographic theory. Anthropology at its very best, this is work that makes evident the plasticity of the binary. Through gripping stories of the self in the other, the here in the there, nature in artifice, and the beauty in mess, readers come to understand that binaries are always socially made., A highly readable and sophisticated ethnography, Plastic Bodies will appeal to scholars in the fields of Brazilian studies, women and gender studies, global health, science and technology studies, and pharmaceutical anthropology., Read this book and you'll never think about hormones the same way again. Emilia Sanabria takes us into the Brave New World of Brazilian gynecology, where experimental contraceptives (sometimes containing testosterone) are taken to suppress menstruation, improve body shape, 'give fire,' or manage relationships. Plastic Bodies is a fascinating account of how hormones came to have multiple forms and uses in Brazil. A beautifully written ethnography, it is also an intimate portrait of women's experiences of these pharmaceuticals., Plastic Bodies is a timely and exhilarating project that contributes to a constellation of emergent, multidisciplinary, feminist scholarship about bodies, hormones, biopolitics, and materiality., Sanabria has produced a subtle, well-researched and beautifully written book that could be used in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, the Sociology or Anthropology of Health and Medicine and the Globalization of Sexuality and Gender., This book belongs to a new generation of ethnographies that are reinventing our conceptions of gender, health, embodiment and medicine. In her lucid exposition of hormonal practices in Bahia, Emilia Sanabria both introduces us to a new form of biological control and challenges existing models of self, agency and matter. By meticulously charting the relative biologies of her informants, she persuasively argues that their plastic bodies are also ours., Clearly written and engaging, Plastic Bodies will make an excellent addition to both graduate and undergraduate reading lists, in particular in courses on the anthropology of the body, reproduction, and science and technology studies. It will also be of interest to those who teach courses on Brazil and the Brazilian Northeast region., Rich in ethnographic detail and rigorous in interpretation, Plastic Bodies is a deeply researched, complex, and innovative exploration of an important topic.... [T]his book is a fascinating analysis of gender, the medicalization of the body, and the socialization of biochemistry that has wide applicability across disciplines., Convincingly argued and engaging, Plastic Bodies is an ethnography that would work well in a variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, exploring reproduction, medicine, the body, gender, science and technology studies, health policies and inequalities, or in courses focusing on Latin America or Brazil specifically., "Sanabria's work is innovative and inventive, responding to the impacts of neomaterialism, feminist studies of science and the "ontological turn" in anthropology. Instead of taking the bodies' frontiers for granted, Sanabria prefers to focus on the very process of their making. This is a great contribution to contemporary studies of the body.", "Read this book and you'll never think about hormones the same way again. Emilia Sanabria takes us into the Brave New World of Brazilian gynecology, where experimental contraceptives (sometimes containing testosterone) are taken to suppress menstruation, improve body shape, "give fire," or manage relationships. Plastic Bodies is a fascinating account of how hormones came to have multiple forms and uses in Brazil. A beautifully written ethnography, it is also an intimate portrait of women's experiences of these pharmaceuticals.", "Emilia Sanabria's Plastic Bodies is a captivating book and a much needed study on perceptions on menstruation and associated biomedical practices. . . . Plastic Bodies is a pleasure to read; it is beautifully written and has a style that at times merges with the genre of travel writing enabling readers to accompany Sanabria to Salvador de Bahia where she conducted her fieldwork." , This book belongs to a new generation of ethnographies that are reinventing our conceptions of gender, health, embodiment, and medicine. In her lucid exposition of hormonal practices in Bahia, Emilia Sanabria both introduces us to a new form of biological control and challenges existing models of self, agency, and matter. By meticulously charting the relative biologies of her informants, she persuasively argues that their plastic bodies are also ours., Emilia Sanabria's Plastic Bodies is a captivating book and a much needed study on perceptions on menstruation and associated biomedical practices. . . . Plastic Bodies is a pleasure to read; it is beautifully written and has a style that at times merges with the genre of travel writing enabling readers to accompany Sanabria to Salvador de Bahia where she conducted her fieldwork.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
612.6/62098142
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
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QP263.S263 2016
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2016
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