1st Edition
Beyond the Natural Body An Archaeology of Sex Hormones
By Nelly Oudshoorn
Copyright 1994
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and progesterone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there exists such a thing... Read more
1 The Making of Sex Hormones 2 The Marketing of Sex Hormones 3 The Transformation of Sex Hormones into the Pill 4 The Power of Structures that Already Exist Notes, Bibliography
Biography
Nelly Oudshoorn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam.
'By raising questions about the analytical adequacy of current approaches, the authors develop innovative answers to our sociological understanding of the relationships between the social self, the sequestration of the dead body and the social presence of the dead ... It is an imaginative contribution to the cluster of disciplines that are situated around the dying body' - Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge.
'This stress on historical change and context is more illuminating, in my view, than Tuana's overemphasis on repetition. ... I feel that Oudshoorn's is the more significant of these two books, and deserves to be read. Oudshoorn's work is important in denaturalising even this very 'obvious' difference and extending our knowledge of how gender produces sex.' - Womens Philosophy Review
