A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
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DOI：
10.1111/padr.12403
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发表时间：
2021-04-27
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2.5
通讯作者：
Fissell, Mary E.
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作者：
Bell, Suzanne O.;Fissell, Mary E.
生育研究人员依赖于一个简单的二元：怀孕与未怀孕。然而，这一概念并没有抓住许多妇女的经验，无论是在历史上还是在今天的许多情况下。我们认为，怀孕状态可能是一个更加模糊的状态，这种模糊性往往是生产的妇女。对我们所说的“生产性模糊”建立一种文化敏感的理解，可以促进对生育力进行更严格的研究，更好地捕捉潜在的怀孕和女性有意或无意地采取的性交后生育抑制行动的范围。本文的目的是：1）描述围绕怀孕存在的模糊性; 2）解释这种模糊性对妇女产生影响的方式; 3）分析这种模糊性在实践中的两个具体例子：月经调节的情况和避孕与早期堕胎在各种环境中的意想不到的概念重叠，最后; 4）提出这种更微妙的理解可能会为生育研究提供信息的方法，包括堕胎测量研究。我们联合收割机将最近的定性和定量数据与历史资料相结合，分析这种模糊性的文化逻辑和权力动态。
Fertility researchers rely upon a simple binary: pregnant versus not pregnant. However, this conceptualization does not capture many women's experiences, both historically and in numerous settings today. We suggest that pregnancy status may be a much more ambiguous state, and that such ambiguity is often productive for women. Building a culturally sensitive understanding of what we are calling "productive ambiguity" can foster more rigorous studies of fertility that better capture potential pregnancy and the range of post-coital fertility-inhibiting actions women take, both intentionally and not. In this paper, we aim to: 1) describe the ambiguity that exists around pregnancy; 2) explain the ways in which this ambiguity is productive for women; 3) analyze two concrete examples of such ambiguity in practice: the case of menstrual regulation and the unexpected conceptual overlaps between contraception and early abortion in a variety of settings, and finally; 4) suggest ways that this more nuanced understanding might inform fertility research, including abortion measurement research. We combine recent qualitative and quantitative data with historical sources to analyze the cultural logics and power dynamics of this ambiguity.