Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism
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 pharmaceut…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-86337-7
- EAN: 9780521863377
- Produktnummer: 3156418
- Verlag: Cambridge
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
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Celia Roberts is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. She is the author of Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (with Sarah Franklin, 2006).
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