Mobilizing the self-governance of pre-damaged bodies: neoliberal biological citizenship and HPV vaccination promotion in Canada

Charles, Nicole

doi:10.1080/13621025.2013.834128

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“…Similar conclusions are drawn in other studies (see e.g. Polzer and Knabe 2009;Connell and Hunt 2010;Spratt et al 2013;Vardeman-Winter 2012;Charles 2013Charles , 2014Davies and Burns 2014;Burns and Davies 2015).…”

Section: Hpv Vaccines In Sts and Elsewheresupporting

confidence: 77%

“…How sex is made present in these examples differs from how HPV vaccination campaigns normally seem to sideline sex in favor of cervical cancer (see e.g. Mamo et al 2010;Charles 2013Charles , 2014.…”

Section: Get the Facts Right: A Quizmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has been discussed in relation to HPV vaccination campaigns in Sweden (Lindén 2013b) and elsewhere Polzer and Knabe 2012;Charles 2013Charles , 2014. In Sweden, it has also been analyzed as circulating in other contexts of girl-centered health promotion (see e.g.…”

Section: A Message About Girl Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many studies concern HPV vaccination campaigns (see Polzer and Knabe 2009;Connell and Hunt 2010;Vardeman-Winter 2012;Charles 2013Charles , 2014Davies and Burns 2014). In addition to how such campaigns, as shown above, articulate individualized risk, studies emphasize that HPV vaccination campaigns often rely on a postfeminist discourse of girl empowerment.…”

Section: Hpv Vaccines In Sts and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strikingly, these scholars use HPV vaccines as illuminative examples. Finally, scholars working on HPV vaccines, such as Laura Mamo with colleagues (2010), Jessica Susan Knabe (2009, 2012) and Nichole Charles (2013Charles ( , 2014, elucidate how discourses of empowerment, protection and care of girls may go hand in hand within a context of HPV vaccination campaigns.…”

Section: Girl-centered Care Troublementioning

confidence: 99%

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Communicating Care : The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns

Lindén¹

2016

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Section: Hpv Vaccines In Sts and Elsewheresupporting

confidence: 77%

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confidence: 99%

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Lindén¹

2016

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Gendered bio-responsibilities and travelling egg providers from South Africa

Pande¹,

Moll²

2018

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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‘Unsuspecting young South African women are heading overseas to donate their eggs to infertile couples and earn a free international holiday in the process. But, at what cost?’ This was the voice-over during a news show in South Africa in 2016 that described the phenomenon of young white South African women going abroad to ‘donate’ their eggs. Through the media, medical professionals sought to warn ‘naïve girls’ about ‘unscrupulous agencies’ taking advantage of them, and in doing so putting them at grave medical risks in ‘Third World’ clinics. Yet owners of agencies and egg providers themselves countered this imagery; here, the egg provider becomes a far more complex biocitizen who finds an opportunity to combine an act of altruism with an opportunity to earn money and travel. Through interviews with travelling egg providers, doctors and egg agencies, and analysis of public and social media, we analyse these competing discourses critically by situating them within the specific context of egg provision in South Africa. We argue that travelling egg providers' defence of their involvement may challenge some gendered assumptions made by the media and medical staff, but at the same time reaffirm what we call ‘gendered bio-responsibilities’, or the gendered nature of the emphasis on (individual) responsibilization of biological citizens. By focusing on a relatively understudied aspect of the burgeoning literature on biocitizenship, we argue that the project of biocitizenship assists the expansion and normalization of new biomedical technologies, often without proper emphasis on the disproportionate obligations on the women involved.

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The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality

Epstein

Mamo

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Mobilizing the self-governance of pre-damaged bodies: neoliberal biological citizenship and HPV vaccination promotion in Canada

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Communicating Care : The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns

Communicating Care : The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns

Gendered bio-responsibilities and travelling egg providers from South Africa

The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality

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