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    "Swimming in Poison": Reimagining Endocrine Disruption through China's Environmental Hormones

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    Author
    Lamoreaux, Janelle
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Anthropol
    Issue Date
    2019-03
    Keywords
    China
    toxicity
    endocrine-disrupting chemicals
    pollution
    Yangtze River
    Greenpeace
    milk powder
    environmental activism
    hormones
    
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    UNIV CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, INST EAST ASIAN STUDIES
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    Lamoreaux, Janelle. 2019. "'Swimming in Poison': Reimagining Endocrine Disruption through China’s Environmental Hormones." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (e-journal) 30: 78–100. https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-30/lamoreaux.
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    CROSS-CURRENTS-EAST ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE REVIEW
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    © Cross-Currents, 2019. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
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    This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.
    Abstract
    This article analyzes media responses to a 2010 Greenpeace China report titled Swimming in Poison. Among other alarming data, the report states that fish from collection points along the Yangtze River showed elevated levels of harmful "environmental hormones" (huanjing jisu), also referred to as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Scholars have critiqued EDC science and activism for its heteronormative pathologizing of intersexuality, nonreproductive sexual activity, and impaired fertility, drawing attention to the "sex panic" at work in EDC discourse. This article shows that such sex panic is neither necessary nor universal in anxieties surrounding EDCs. Unlike media responses to EDC events in Europe and North America, Chinese news articles that followed the report did not focus on anxieties surrounding sexual transgression. Instead, media reactions focused on food safety, industrial capitalism, and the ecological scope of pollution. Based on this analysis, the author argues that the disruptive quality and analytic potential of China's environmental hormones has less to do with a defense of sexual purity or bodily integrity, and more to do with acknowledging the depths to which human and nonhuman bodies in today's China are suffused with the sometimes toxic social, economic, political, and chemical environments in which people eat, grow, and live.
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    Open access journal
    ISSN
    2158-9666
    DOI
    10.1353/ach.2019.0008
    Version
    Final published version
    Sponsors
    Wenner-Gren Foundation; National Science Foundation; Social Science Research Council; Wellcome Trust; University of Arizona's School of Anthropology
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