Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences)
Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences)
By Celia Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2007-11-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521681979
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521681971
Binding: Paperback
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?
Celia Roberts , "Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism"
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 19, 2007) | ISBN:0521863376 | 248 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb
Review
"This
is an excellent book that rigorously and thoughtfully argues that sex
hormones still matter today. Although "gene talk" has currently become
an important discourse to conceptualise biological life, Celia Roberts
convincingly shows how hormones still function as important scientific,
cultural and political resources for answering persistent questions
about sex, gender and the body. Bridging two distinct fields of
research - feminist theories of the body and science and technology
studies - Messengers of Sex provides new, critical tools in order to
think through how technoscientific discourses are interwoven into
women's and men's lives." -Nelly Oudshoorn, Professor of Technology
Dynamics and Health Care, University of Twente, The Netherlands
"What
is the relationship between hormones and sex, between the biological
and the social, and between sex and gender? In this engagingly written
book Roberts develops an elegant and complex - yet entirely accessible
- argument that deserves to command the attention of theorists working
in history, philosophy, science and technology studies, cultural
studies, anthropology, sociology and feminist theory. This is one of a
handful of truly exceptional recent books to emerge from informed and
responsible interdisciplinary research." -Professor Moira Gatens
Research Professor, University of Sydney
Book Description
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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Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences)
By Celia Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2007-11-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521681979
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521681971
Binding: Paperback
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?
Celia Roberts , "Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism"
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 19, 2007) | ISBN:0521863376 | 248 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb
Review
"This
is an excellent book that rigorously and thoughtfully argues that sex
hormones still matter today. Although "gene talk" has currently become
an important discourse to conceptualise biological life, Celia Roberts
convincingly shows how hormones still function as important scientific,
cultural and political resources for answering persistent questions
about sex, gender and the body. Bridging two distinct fields of
research - feminist theories of the body and science and technology
studies - Messengers of Sex provides new, critical tools in order to
think through how technoscientific discourses are interwoven into
women's and men's lives." -Nelly Oudshoorn, Professor of Technology
Dynamics and Health Care, University of Twente, The Netherlands
"What
is the relationship between hormones and sex, between the biological
and the social, and between sex and gender? In this engagingly written
book Roberts develops an elegant and complex - yet entirely accessible
- argument that deserves to command the attention of theorists working
in history, philosophy, science and technology studies, cultural
studies, anthropology, sociology and feminist theory. This is one of a
handful of truly exceptional recent books to emerge from informed and
responsible interdisciplinary research." -Professor Moira Gatens
Research Professor, University of Sydney
Book Description
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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