Oudshoorn The Male Pill

A Biography of a Technology in the Making
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8522-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

The technology has been there for over 20 years: how come there is still no male pill on the market?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oudshoorn, Nelly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

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 Autor(innen)

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.