Browsing by Subject "birth control"

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    Birth Control: Is an IUD right for me?
    (2009-05-06) Neudecker, Maggie
    Worldwide IUDs are the most frequently used form of reversible contraception. Negative publicity has caused IUD use in the U.S. to be much lower than the rest of the world. The IUD is highly effective, reversible, long acting, and has few side effects. The IUD can safely be used in women who have not been pregnant, are not married, are breastfeeding, who have had previous problems with IUDs, and who have a past history of gynecological infections or ectopic pregnancies. Absolute contraindications to IUD use include pregnancy, uterine abnormalities that prevent IUD placement, cancer, allergic reaction to ingredients, and active pelvic infection.
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    My Wife, My Choice: Reproductive Policymaking and Social Control in Turkey
    (2015-09) Binnet, Pelin Azer
    Looking at the trajectory of Turkish reproductive politics since the 1960s in three distinct periods, this study examines the mismatch between liberal legal reforms, and the lack of change in the gendered reproductive and sexual discourses within a context. By using interpretive policy analysis and discourse analysis, I follow the reproductive policymaking narratives in Turkey to examine to understand how reproductive reforms can create mechanisms of social control over women – and how women and families circumvent these mechanisms in pragmatic ways in return. I make use of newspaper archives going back to the 1950s and Parliament debate transcripts to understand what different reproductive technologies meant for the policymakers and the public, why certain technologies were legalized while others were not, what kinds of social norms the policymakers and the public expected these technologies to work within, and how the abortion debate changed in Turkey during the 2000s to re-politicize the issue after its “resolution” by the military government of early 1980s. I trace the evolution of reproductive policies along with the discursive creation of its constituents, and the discursive creation of the discriminatory gendered and economic rationalities they depend on.