The male pill : a biography of a technology in the making / Nelly Oudshoorn.

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

Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Overcoming resistance : constructing alternative sociotechnical networks -- 1. Designing technology and masculinity -- 2. How man came to be included in the contraceptive research agenda -- 3. Creating a worldwide laboratory for synthesizing hormonal contraceptive compounds -- 4. The inaccessible man : the quest for male trial participants and test locations -- 5. The co-construction of technologies and risks -- pt. 2. Configuring the user : articulating and performing masculinities -- 6. The politics of language : changing family planning discourse to include men -- 7. Making room for men : configuring men as clients of family planning clinics -- 8. "The first man on the pill" : disciplining men as reliable test subjects -- 9. On masculinities, technologies, and pain : the testing of male contraceptives in the clinic and the media -- 10. Articulating acceptability -- 11. Technologies of trust -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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