sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sanabria, Emilia
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- LAT 34 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- anticonceptie, bevolkingspolitiek, menstruatie, lichamen, gezondheid, sociale klasse, identiteit, Brazilië
- Description
- In this publication the author 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, the author 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.