Medicalisation by Whom? Accounts of Menstruation Conveyed by Young Women and Medical Experts in Medical Advisory Columns

Oinas, Elina

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.00080

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“…While participants noted that it might be beneficial to use the ring without a partner’s knowledge, they also voiced reluctance about using the ring because of fears of negative sexual attitudes of partners. Partner concerns may serve as an additional barrier for women considering this option as taboos related to masturbation are prevalent among young women and men 20,21,22,23…”

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Attitudes Toward the Vaginal Ring and Transdermal Patch Among Adolescents and Young Women

Raine

Epstein

Harper

et al. 2009

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Purpose The vaginal ring and the transdermal patch offer important contraceptive options for women at high risk of unintended pregnancy. Little is known about what adolescents and young women think about these methods and why use of the ring has been relatively low compared to the patch. We sought to examine young women’s attitudes and perceptions about the ring and the patch to better understand the relationship between perceptions of these methods and decisions to use them. Methods Sixteen focus groups of young women aged 15–26 years (n=113) from family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area were convened. Data from the focus groups were analyzed using standard content analysis. Results While young women expressed apprehension and doubt about both methods, for the most part women expressed more positive attitudes about the patch. Two related themes for the ring and the patch were identified: “lack of trust in effectiveness,” and “method use concerns. Two themes unique to the ring: “concerns regarding vaginal insertion” and “sexual partner perceptions” and three themes unique to the patch: “ease of remembering”, “visibility issues”, and “perceived health risk” were identified. Conclusions Increased provider education about apprehensions related to the ring and the patch may lead to increased use of the ring and counter recent declines in use of the patch. It would be unfortunate if these safe and effective options for young women are underutilized because negative attitudes and perceptions about these methods act as barriers to adoption.

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Attitudes Toward the Vaginal Ring and Transdermal Patch Among Adolescents and Young Women

Raine

Epstein

Harper

et al. 2009

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…They also reported avoiding sexual intercourse and other activities during menstruation. Oinas (1998) analyzed the content of adolescent girls' letters about menstruation and physicians' responses to them that were published in the medical advisory columns of various magazines. The main themes identified in the girls' letters were questions about normality, menstrual problems, and everyday routines.…”

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To Bleed or Not to Bleed: Young Women's Attitudes Toward Menstrual Suppression

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The purpose of this study was to investigate women's knowledge about and attitudes toward the medical suppression of menstruation. One hundred and three female undergraduate students completed several questionnaires. Thirty-five percent of the participants were familiar with menstrual suppression, and 12% reported using birth control methods to suppress their menses; oral contraceptive users were more knowledgeable about menstrual suppression than other women. Women who regarded menstruation as bothersome and shameful were more supportive of suppression than women with more positive attitudes. Women who scored higher on measures of body consciousness were not more likely to support menstrual suppression or to report a desire for more information about menstrual suppression. Future investigations of women's attitudes toward menstrual suppression could inform reproductive health care and health education.

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“…Only a handful of feminist researchers have directed their research gaze toward teenage magazines (e.g. Carpenter, 1998Carpenter, , 2001Currie, 1999Currie, , 2001Kehily, 1999;McCracken, 1993;McRobbie, 1991;Oinas, 1998;Pierce, 1990), some of whom have investigated advice columns in particular. Yet these magazines have a substantial readership and they are a highly salient and significant cultural resource for many young western women not only in their negotiation of sexual identities (Currie, 1999;McRobbie, 1991McRobbie, , 1996 but also in their learning about sexuality and sexual health issues (Kehily, 1999).…”

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‘Dear Girlfriend...’: Constructions of Sexual Health Problems and Sexual Identities in Letters to a Teenage Magazine

Jackson

2005

Sexualities

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Advice columns in teenage magazines provide space for young women to both write and read about representations of issues that teenage girls may grapple with in their everyday lives. Issues related to sexuality appear frequently in these pages. This article examines letters about sexual health issues written to the advice columns of Girlfriend, an Australasian teen magazine. Using a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis, the article asks how sexual health problems are being constructed by writers and the magazine doctor, and how young women's sexual subjectivities are being drawn through their positioning in the various discourses mobilized in the texts. Analyses suggest glimmerings of plurality in sexual subjectivities, dominance of the 'coital imperative' in constructions of sexuality, and emphasis on discourses of risk and danger versus pleasure.

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Medicalisation by Whom? Accounts of Menstruation Conveyed by Young Women and Medical Experts in Medical Advisory Columns

Cited by 38 publications

References 33 publications

Attitudes Toward the Vaginal Ring and Transdermal Patch Among Adolescents and Young Women

Attitudes Toward the Vaginal Ring and Transdermal Patch Among Adolescents and Young Women

To Bleed or Not to Bleed: Young Women's Attitudes Toward Menstrual Suppression

‘Dear Girlfriend...’: Constructions of Sexual Health Problems and Sexual Identities in Letters to a Teenage Magazine

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