Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

Author/Contributor(s):	Sanabria, Emilia
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/22/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.