Contraceptives tecnologies and femininity: the pill as a gender script

 

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Author: Cuevas Barberousse, Tania
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2014
Description:This paper analyzes the historical, scientific, and social contexts that guided the development and commercialization of the contraceptive pill. The essay sheds light on the power structures that shaped the construction of this technology and the discourses that it promotes about the female body. The contraceptive pill is conceptualized as a gender script, that is, a technology that crystallizes specific gender representations, values, and practices. This constructivist approach allows us to reveal the social and cultural structures that sustain this gender script and, in this way, helps us question the notion of the contraceptive pill as an intrinsically emancipatory technology.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/17877
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reflexiones/article/view/17877
Keyword:contracepción
estudios de la ciencia y la tecnología
feminidad
género
pastilla anticonceptiva
contraception
contraceptive pill
femininity
gender
science and technology studies