Critical ethnographic respect: womens' narratives, material conditions, and emergency contraception in India
Critical ethnographic respect: womens' narratives, material conditions, and emergency contraception in India
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10.1080/13648470.2020.1778427
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2020-08-24
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1.8
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Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran
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作者：
Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran
在印度，紧急避孕药(ECP)作为荷尔蒙节育的一种形式，越来越多地在柜台上获得。由于环境保护计划的使用随着时间的推移而增加，本文利用北阿肯德邦德拉敦的人种学研究来强调妇女在日常物质条件下围绕环境保护计划的选择和代理进行叙事。女性认为ECPs是比堕胎更好的选择，欣赏ECPs给她们带来的赋权感，因为它们可以在女性空间和隐私有限的房子里消费；最后，ECPs和她们的广告可以充当社会变革的推动者。女权主义关于生殖的研究表明，选择是一种在一定限制下实施的代理形式。利用这一框架，这项研究突出了女性如何在谈论ECPs及其广告时，创造关于避孕选择的想法和“赋权”的概念。本文以罗莎琳德·吉尔的“批判性尊重”概念为基础，重新审视女性的中介和选择的两难境地，提出“批判性民族志尊重”作为一种人种学工具，帮助解读女性的反应，并尊重地将这些叙事产生的物质背景联系起来。
Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) are increasingly available over the counter as a form of hormonal birth control in India. As use of ECPs is increasing over time, this paper draws on ethnographic research in Dehradun, in Uttarakhand (Northern State) to highlight the everyday material conditions under which women create narrative around choice and agency regarding these ECPs. Women viewed ECPs as better options than abortion, appreciated the sense of empowerment these provided them because they could be consumed in houses where women had limited 'space and privacy;' and finally that ECPs and their advertisements could act as 'agents of social change.' Feminist scholarship on reproduction demonstrates that choice is a form of agency that is enacted within certain constraints. Using this framework, the research here highlights how women create narratives about ideas of contraceptive choice and notions of 'empowerment' when talking about ECPs and their advertisements. In revisiting the dilemma about women's agency and choice, this paper builds on Rosalind Gill's concept of 'critical respect' to propose 'critical ethnographic respect' as an ethnographic tool to help read women's responses and respectfully contextualise the materiality from within which these narratives emerge.