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Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
Emilia Sanabria
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Description for Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
Paperback. 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. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHMC; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Experimental Futures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361619
SKU
V9780822361619
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99-50
About Emilia Sanabria
Emilia Sanabria is Maitresse de conferences in Social Anthropology at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon.
Reviews for Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
Plastic Bodies is nuanced and richly detailed. . . . It delivers everything it promises.
Andrea Ford
Medicine Anthropology Theory
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.
Rafael de la Dehesa
International Feminist Journal of Politics
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.
Jose Amador
The Latin Americanist
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.
Emily Yates-Doerr
Somatosphere
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.
Daniela Tonelli Manica
Somatosphere
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.
Okezi T. Otovo
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Plastic Bodies is a timely and exhilarating project that contributes to a constellation of emergent, multidisciplinary, feminist scholarship about bodies, hormones, biopolitics, and materiality.
E. Hella Tsaconas
Feminist Formations
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.
K. Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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.
Angela Lavilla Canedo
Centre for Medical Humanities
Andrea Ford
Medicine Anthropology Theory
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.
Rafael de la Dehesa
International Feminist Journal of Politics
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.
Jose Amador
The Latin Americanist
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.
Emily Yates-Doerr
Somatosphere
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.
Daniela Tonelli Manica
Somatosphere
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.
Okezi T. Otovo
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Plastic Bodies is a timely and exhilarating project that contributes to a constellation of emergent, multidisciplinary, feminist scholarship about bodies, hormones, biopolitics, and materiality.
E. Hella Tsaconas
Feminist Formations
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.
K. Eliza Williamson
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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.
Angela Lavilla Canedo
Centre for Medical Humanities