Messengers of Sex di Celia (Lancaster University) Roberts edito da Cambridge University Press
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Messengers of Sex

Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism

EAN:

9780521863377

ISBN:

0521863376

Pagine:
248
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Messengers of Sex

Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment of fertility, infertility and ageing. However, in contemporary society, hormones are both disturbed and disturbing; invading our environments and bodies through plastics, food and water, environmental estrogens and other chemicals, threatening irreversible, inter-generational bodily change. Using a wide range of sources, from physiology textbooks to popular parenting books and pharmaceutical advertisements, Celia Roberts analyses the multiple ways in which sex hormones have come to matter to us today. Bringing feminist theories of the body into dialogue with science and technology studies, she develops tools to address one of the most important questions facing feminism today: how is biological sex conceivable?

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