Chloe Bell-Wilson

Biography

Chloe Bell-Wilson is a PhD candidate who studies the history of synthetic estrogen in the United States. She is interested in the way pharmaceutical companies, the medical profession, regulators, and women themselves shaped the trajectory of hormones as drugs and created a new kind of molecular femininity. Her project traces the many lives of estrogen as contraception, fertility aid, gender-affirming care, cancer treatment, and carcinogen, examining how moments of controversy linked these uses together during an ever-expanding presence of estrogen in users’ lives.