SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Male Reproductive System, Vasectomy, Endocrinology
3 May 2018
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Gendered Reproduction (2)
- Legal cases to understand the history
- 1965: Married couples get a right to the bill
- 1992: Access to the pill for anyone
Contraceptive Responsibility and Gender
- Types of contraceptive technologies available
- Women bear a disproportionate responsibility for contraception
- Condoms as ‘male’ methods?
- High level or woman identified participation in the usage of condoms
- Shared responsibility for the purchase of condoms whereas women have to
purchase the pill
- Women participate in strong negotiation of condoms
- Lower availability of male methods and female participation in the use and
negotiation of those types of methods
- Women’s, not men’s bodies, as “natural” objects of reproductive intervention
- Science of sex endocrinology
- Gynecology — early 20th C.
- Male parallel? Androcology
- Today?
- Throughout history, women are considered more ‘hormonal’ than men
- Gender asymmetry in Contraceptive Development
- No new male methods since the 19th century
- Rubber condoms were produced in 1860, vasectomy as a procedure
was introduced in the 1890s
- Options for hormonal and non-hormonal that work in a similar
way to the female pill
- Mid-1990s contraceptive research that has focused on men→
8%
- First physiological contraceptives focused on women
- 1960s, early 1970s
- More publicizing the risks of the female pill
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- 1980s
- Newspaper headlines: “What about a Male Pill?”
- More public discussion about a male pill (20 years after the
development of the female pill)
- Late 1990s:
- “Race for the Male Pill”
- “So within 5 years we might have a reliable contraceptive Pill”
- “Men will be on the pill for 5 years”
- Year 2000 as the magical date????
- Most contraceptive trajectories = 12 years
- Male pill = ?!?!?!?!?!
Document Summary
1965: married couples get a right to the bill. Women bear a disproportionate responsibility for contraception. Condoms as male" methods? purchase the pill. High level or woman identified participation in the usage of condoms. Shared responsibility for the purchase of condoms whereas women have to. Women participate in strong negotiation of condoms. Lower availability of male methods and female participation in the use and negotiation of those types of methods. Women"s, not men"s bodies, as natural objects of reproductive intervention. Throughout history, women are considered more hormonal" than men. No new male methods since the 19th century. Rubber condoms were produced in 1860, vasectomy as a procedure was introduced in the 1890s. Options for hormonal and non-hormonal that work in a similar way to the female pill. Mid-1990s contraceptive research that has focused on men . More publicizing the risks of the female pill. Newspaper headlines: what about a male pill? .
