Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of
gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust
approach to pregnancy prevention. The average person concerned
about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to
prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription
birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United
States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get on the Pill, a keenly
researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn
investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced
and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers,
partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth
control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and
ultimately into shouldering the burden for preventing pregnancy.
Littlejohn draws on extensive interviews to document this gendered
compulsory birth control-a phenomenon in which people who give
birth are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies
in gender-constrained ways. She shows how this gendered approach
encroaches on reproductive autonomy and poses obstacles for
preventing disease. While diverse cisgender women are the focus,
Littlejohn shows that they are not the only ones harmed by this
dynamic. Indeed, gendered approaches to birth control also
negatively impact trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people
in overlooked ways. In tracing the divisive politics of pregnancy
prevention, Littlejohn demonstrates that the gendered division of
labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust.
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