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Birth Controlling: contraceptive negotiation and reproductive body alienation within the lives of female-bodied people
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Moore, Lisa Jean
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Spring 2024
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2024
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While contraceptive technologies may seem biologically determined, they are socially constructed and influenced by hegemonic ideals that privilege male bodies and place an undue burden on female bodies to prevent pregnancy. In this study, I investigated the following research questions: (1) How do female-bodied people construct and negotiate birth control methods? (2) What factors influence female-bodied people's perception and embodied experience with birth control? and (3) How do their intimate and romantic relationships influence these perceptions? Seventeen in-depth interviews were completed with female-bodied participants between the ages of 18-25 and the transcripts of these interviews were analyzed for codes to produce grounded theory. This research introduces and supports the theory of Reproductive Body Alienation, in which the labor and unequal responsibility of birth control separates female-bodied people from the embodied products of their work with contraception. However, a more shared model of contraception could alleviate this strain. Additionally, a latent finding of this study was a cultural lag surrounding vocabulary and conceptualization of non-contraceptive uses of birth control methods.
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