The male pill : a biography of a technology in the making /
Oudshoorn, Nelly, 1950-
The male pill : a biography of a technology in the making / Nelly Oudshoorn. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2003. - xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Overcoming resistance : constructing alternative sociotechnical networks -- Designing technology and masculinity -- How man came to be included in the contraceptive research agenda -- Creating a worldwide laboratory for synthesizing hormonal contraceptive compounds -- inaccessible man : the quest for male trial participants and test locations -- co-construction of technologies and risks -- Configuring the user : articulating and performing masculinities -- politics of language : changing family planning discourse to include men -- Making room for men : configuring men as clients of family planning clinics -- first man on the pill" : disciplining men as reliable test subjects -- On masculinities, technologies, and pain : the testing of male contraceptives in the clinic and the media -- Articulating acceptability -- Technologies of trust -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The pt. 2. 6. The 7. 8. "The 9. 10. 11.
0822331586 (cloth) 0822331950 (pbk.)
2003007681
GBA3-V1485
101194812 DNLM
Oral contraceptives, Male--Social aspects.
Male contraceptives.
RC888 / .O93 2003
The male pill : a biography of a technology in the making / Nelly Oudshoorn. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2003. - xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Overcoming resistance : constructing alternative sociotechnical networks -- Designing technology and masculinity -- How man came to be included in the contraceptive research agenda -- Creating a worldwide laboratory for synthesizing hormonal contraceptive compounds -- inaccessible man : the quest for male trial participants and test locations -- co-construction of technologies and risks -- Configuring the user : articulating and performing masculinities -- politics of language : changing family planning discourse to include men -- Making room for men : configuring men as clients of family planning clinics -- first man on the pill" : disciplining men as reliable test subjects -- On masculinities, technologies, and pain : the testing of male contraceptives in the clinic and the media -- Articulating acceptability -- Technologies of trust -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 5. The pt. 2. 6. The 7. 8. "The 9. 10. 11.
0822331586 (cloth) 0822331950 (pbk.)
2003007681
GBA3-V1485
101194812 DNLM
Oral contraceptives, Male--Social aspects.
Male contraceptives.
RC888 / .O93 2003