Nelly Oudshoorn

The Male Pill

A Biography of a Technology in the Making

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Produktbeschreibung

Unravels the social and cultural work involved in developing contraceptives for men and explains how technologies that conflict with hegemonic masculinity have a hard time coming into existence. This work also documents how the World Health Organization took the lead in investigating male contraceptives by coordinating worldwide research network.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 149mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331957
• ISBN-10: 0822331950
• Artikelnr.: 21987015

Autorenporträt

Nelly Oudshoorn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Part I. Overcoming Resistance: Constructing Alternative Sociotechnical
Networks
1. Designing Technology and Masculinity 3
2. How Man Came to Be Included in the Contraceptive Research Agenda 19
3. Creating a Worldwide Laboratory for Synthesizing Hormonal Contraceptive
Compounds 52
4. The Inaccessible Man: The Quest for Male Trial Participants and Test
Locations 69
5. The Co-construction of Technologies and Risks 86
Part II. Configuring the User: Articulating and Performing Masculinities
6. The Politics of Language: Changing Family Planning Discourse to Include
Men 113
7. Making Room for Men: Configuring Men as Clients of Family Planning
Clinics 140
8. "The First Man on the Pill": Disciplining Men as Reliable Test Subjects
171
9. On Masculinities, Technologies, and Pain: The Testing of Male
Contraceptives in the Clinic and Media 191
10. Articulating Acceptability 209
11. Technologies of Trust 225
Notes 243
Bibliography 269
Index 293