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