Seizing the means of contraception: the politics and practices of experimentation

本研究旨在探讨当代女性避孕知识的构成和避孕实验的实践。它将审查和审问构成英国年轻妇女避孕知识的程序和做法。避孕技术日益增加的知名度以及它们被理解为赋权和体现的方式，都得到了很好的记录和批评。20世纪英国关于性知识的现有研究考察了避孕知识对性态度、性关系和性行为的影响，包括安全性行为的实践(Cook 2004，Porter and Hall 1995，Vitellone 2008)。关于避孕技术的信息一方面被描述为模棱两可，同时以扩大和限制选择的方式使妇女的避孕责任个人化和普遍性(Oudshhoorn 1996)，另一方面被描述为与妇女参与集体共同生产女权主义实验方法的女权主义协议纠缠在一起(Murphy 2012)。人们较少了解的是科学、大众媒体和避孕知识对妇女避孕实践的影响。这一原始的经验项目将解决这一差距

This research seeks to explore the constitution of women's contemporary contraceptive knowledges and their practices of contraceptive experimentation. It will review and interrogate the procedures and practices through which the contraceptive knowledges of young women in England are constituted. The increasing visibility of contraceptive technologies and the ways they are understood to constitute empowerment and embodiment have been well documented and critiqued. Existing research on sexual knowledge in the UK in the twentieth century has examined the effects of contraceptive knowledge on sexual attitudes, sexual relationships and sex practices including the practice of safer sex (Cook 2004, Porter and Hall 1995, Vitellone 2008). Information about contraceptive technologies has been described, on the one hand, as ambiguous, simultaneously individualising and universalising women's responsibility for contraception in ways that expand and limit choices (Oudshhoorn 1996), and, on the other, as entangled with a feminist protocol in which women are engaged in the collective coproduction of feminist methods of experimentation (Murphy 2012). What is less understood is the impact of scientific, popular media and lay contraceptive knowledge on women's contraceptive practices. This original empirical project will address this gap