Project Summary

Danish children reach puberty at a still earlier age, and sex hormones come to play a role as a possible cause as well as a treatment. In the public debates, pros and cons of the birth control pill continue to be discussed while the birth control pill for men has never fully materialized. Borders and opportunities for transgenderism are changing, and sex hormones play a role when Danish sports associations decide on new international guidelines for how to sex-segregate sports.

Endocrine Economies is a cultural analytical research project that follows and analyzes sex hormones as agents in relation to current issues where concerns, aspirations and expectations become disrupted, while new rules are being formulated. The project aims to contribute to the humanistic study of sex hormones along with interdisciplinary dialogue of what our notions of sex hormones look like. This includes political regulations, market economies and mediated expressions including how these change our understandings of gender, age, health, and sexuality.