We are very pleased to bring you a set of thoughtful engagements with Emilia Sanabria’s remarkable book, Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2016). As you’ll see from the commentaries, Plastic Bodies is already well on its way to becoming a touchstone in the medical anthropology and STS literatures on gender, bodies, and pharmaceuticals.
Plastic Bodies, plastic lives: ambiguity, corporality and change in Brazil
Elena Calvo-González
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Fluid hormones
Anita Hardon
University of Amsterdam
How to deal with the politics of body plasticity?
Daniela Tonelli Manica
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Plastic bodies
Emily Yates-Doerr
University of Amsterdam
A response
Emilia Sanabria
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
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AMA citation:
Raikhel E. Book forum: Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil. Somatosphere. 2017. Available at: http://somatosphere.net/2017/plastic-bodies.html/. Accessed May 30, 2023.
APA citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. (2017). Book forum: Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil. Retrieved May 30, 2023, from Somatosphere Web site: http://somatosphere.net/2017/plastic-bodies.html/
Chicago citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. 2017. Book forum: Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2017/plastic-bodies.html/ (accessed May 30, 2023).
Harvard citation:
Raikhel, E 2017, Book forum: Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil, Somatosphere. Retrieved May 30, 2023, from <http://somatosphere.net/2017/plastic-bodies.html/>
MLA citation:
Raikhel, Eugene. "Book forum: Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil." 18 Oct. 2017. Somatosphere. Accessed 30 May. 2023. <http://somatosphere.net/2017/plastic-bodies.html/>