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| List of figures | |
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| A message to readers | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: feminism, bodies and biological sex | |
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| Feminist theories of embodiment | |
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| Science studies and the active body | |
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| Foucault's histories of bodies | |
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| Messaging sex | |
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| Organisation of the book | |
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| Hormone Histories | |
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| Folding hormonal histories of sex | |
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| Histories of sexual differences | |
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| Understanding change: between 'science' and 'culture' | |
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| Time and embodiment in hormone histories | |
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| Hormonal Bodies | |
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| Articulating endocrinology's body | |
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| Theorising technoscientific knowledge production | |
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| Contemporary physiology's hormonal body | |
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| Hormones and the development of sexual differences | |
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| Articulating the hormonal body | |
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| Messaging and articulation | |
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| Activating sexed behaviours | |
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| Hormones and 'the organ of behaviour' | |
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| Scientific challenges to the biological/social distinction: animal studies | |
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| Feminist challenges to the biological/social distinction: the lived body | |
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| Popular science | |
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| A feminist response: rejecting essentialism? | |
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| Narrating hormones and sex: two illustrative examples | |
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| Messaging as multidirectional flow | |
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| Hormone Cultures | |
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| Elixirs of sex: hormone-replacement therapies and contemporary life | |
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| Menopause for women and men | |
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| HRT histories | |
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| Scientific theories of sexual and racial differences | |
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| Sex hormones and women's 'natural' pathologies | |
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| The menopause as unnatural difference | |
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| HRT for men: a new model of sexual difference? | |
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| Elixirs of difference | |
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| The messaging effects of HRT | |
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| Intended effects and 'side' effects | |
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| Feminist responses to HRT | |
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| Individual women's decisions: making medical choices | |
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| HRT-taking women and bio-social embodiment | |
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| Bio-social messaging | |
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| Hormones in the world | |
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| Describing 'gender-bending' chemicals | |
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| Feminism and the politics of endocrine disruption | |
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| Global messaging | |
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| Sharing space with polar bears | |
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| Conclusion: hormones as provocation | |
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| Feminism and vital material bodies | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |