"This book encourages us to understand sterilizations as a metaphor for a broader biomedical approach that interrupts bodies and lifeways to perform Peruvian modernity. Through the notion of cosmocorpus, the author points at the collective impact of western medical practices—and the profound distrust they generate."—Manuela Lavinas Picq, author of Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics"An interesting discussion of family planning and the ways that the framework of family planning intersects uneasily with women's choices and health-care workers' surveillance of women."—Krista Van Vleet, author of Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru