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The Male Pill - A Biography of a Technology in the Making (Paperback, New)
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The Male Pill - A Biography of a Technology in the Making (Paperback, New)
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The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal
contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that,
although the technical feasibility of male contraceptives was
demonstrated as early as the 1970s, there is, to date, no male
pill. Ever since the idea of hormonal contraceptives for men was
introduced, scientists, feminists, journalists, and pharmaceutical
entrepreneurs have questioned whether men and women would accept a
new male contraceptive if one were available. Providing a richly
detailed examination of the cultural, scientific, and policy work
around the male pill from the 1960s through the 1990s, Oudshoorn
advances work at the intersection of gender studies and the
sociology of technology. Oudshoorn emphasizes that the introduction
of contraceptives for men depends to a great extent on changing
ideas about reproductive responsibility. Initial interest in the
male pill, she shows, came from outside the scientific community:
from the governments of China and India, which were interested in
population control, and from Western feminists, who wanted the
responsibilities and health risks associated with contraception
shared more equally between the sexes. She documents how in the
1970s, the World Health Organization took the lead in investigating
male contraceptives by coordinating an unprecedented, worldwide
research network. She chronicles how the search for a male pill
required significant reorganization of drug-testing standards and
protocols and of the family-planning infrastructure—including
founding special clinics for men, creating separate spaces for men
within existing clinics, enrolling new professionals, and defining
new categories of patients. The Male Pill is ultimately a story as
much about the design of masculinities in the last decades of the
twentieth century as it is about the development of safe and
effective technologies.
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