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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