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Pregnancy Test (Paperback)
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Pregnancy Test (Paperback)
Series: Object Lessons
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Loot Price R314
Discovery Miles 3 140
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the
invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be
pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the
privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That
answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive
lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave
gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over
information about women's bodies. However, while science so often
promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much
messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not
always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more
knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural
representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object
radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st
centuries. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay
series in the The Atlantic.
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