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Just get on the pill : the uneven burden of reproductive politics / Krystale E. Littlejohn.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Reproductive justice ; 4.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021ISBN:
  • 9780520307452
  • 9780520307445
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9/60973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.U6 L48 2021
Contents:
Introduction — His condom — Her birth control — Don't be a bitch — Selective selection — Conclusion : something better.
Summary: "The average woman concerned about pregnancy spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. She largely does so alone using prescription birth control, a phenomenon often taken for granted as natural and beneficial in the United States. In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the "woman's method" and relinquish control of external condoms as the "man's method." She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease. In tracing the gendered politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn argues that the gender division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction — His condom — Her birth control — Don't be a bitch — Selective selection — Conclusion : something better.

"The average woman concerned about pregnancy spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. She largely does so alone using prescription birth control, a phenomenon often taken for granted as natural and beneficial in the United States. In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the "woman's method" and relinquish control of external condoms as the "man's method." She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease. In tracing the gendered politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn argues that the gender division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust"-- Provided by publisher.

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