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The technology has been there for over 20 years: how come there is still no male pill on the market?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Gender and Technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is the author of Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones and coeditor of Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine and How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology.
Zusammenfassung
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.
