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Author Littlejohn, Krystale E., 1985- author.

Title Just get on the pill : the uneven burden of reproductive politics / Krystale E. Littlejohn.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  363 LITTLEJOHN    Check Shelf
Description 171 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Reproductive justice : a new vision for the twenty-first century ; 4
Reproductive justice ; 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- His condom -- Her birth control -- Don't be a bitch -- Selective selection -- Conclusion : something better.
Summary "The average woman concerned about pregnancy spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. She largely does so alone using prescription birth control, a phenomenon often taken for granted as natural and beneficial in the United States. In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the "woman's method" and relinquish control of external condoms as the "man's method." She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease. In tracing the gendered politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn argues that the gender division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Human reproduction -- Political aspects -- United States.
Birth control -- Political aspects -- United States.
Birth control -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00833186
Human reproduction -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00963240
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Online version: Littlejohn, Krystale E., 1985- Just get on the pill Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520973763 (DLC) 2020056075
ISBN 9780520307452 paperback
0520307453 paperback
9780520307445 hardcover
0520307445 hardcover
9780520973763 electronic book
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