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BL
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847177
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Sanabria, Emilia,1979-
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| Title & Author
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Plastic bodies : : sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil /\ Emilia Sanabria.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2016.
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, ©2016
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| Series Statement
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Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
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1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0822374196
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: 9780822374190
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0822361426
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0822361612
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9780822361428
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9780822361619
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Plastic bodies -- Managing the inside, out: menstrual blood and bodily dys-appearance -- Is menstruation natural?: contemporary rationales of menstrual management -- Sexing hormones -- Hormonal biopolitics: from population control to self-control -- Sex hormones: making drugs, forging efficacies -- Limits that do not foreclose.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Contraceptive drugs-- Health aspects-- Brazil-- Salvador.
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Hormones, Sex.
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Menstrual regulation-- Brazil-- Salvador.
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Menstruation-- Social aspects-- Brazil-- Salvador.
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Menstruation-- Brazil-- Salvador-- Prevention.
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Menstruation-- drug effects.
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Hormones, Sex.
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MEDICAL-- Physiology.
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Menstrual regulation.
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Menstruation-- Social aspects.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Human Anatomy Physiology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Brazil.
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Brazil, Salvador.
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| Dewey Classification
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612.6/62098142
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| LC Classification
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QP263.S263 2016
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