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In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity.

Menstruation --- Hormones, Sex. --- Contraceptive drugs --- Menstrual regulation --- Prevention. --- Health aspects --- Social aspects --- Salvador (Brasil)