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Navigating Femininity: Menstrual Suppression in Biomedicine

Explore how menstrual suppression drugs shape femininity, from medicalization to societal expectations, revealing complexities in women's autonomy and empowerment. Unveil the entrapment within the facade of choice and empowerment.

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Navigating Femininity: Menstrual Suppression in Biomedicine

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  1. Empowered or Entrapped?: Constructing Femininity through Menstrual Suppression drugs.By: Cayla Minaiy

  2. How do Menstrual Suppression drugs reinforce a new type of femininity? • Medicalization of the menstrual cycle • Biomedicine disciplines bodies • “Lifestyle” drugs are advertised to improve the body

  3. Logical vs. Emotional

  4. “An enactment of gender”? • Menstrual suppression drugs re-fashion women’s lives, bodies and “choice” by reproducing a gendered discourse. • Menstrual Suppression drugs give off the impression of empowerment but actually entrap women to conform to ideal norms of femininity.

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