More and Less than Equal

Almeling, Rene; Waggoner, Miranda R.

doi:10.1177/0891243213484510

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“…In both of these cases, part of the reason the patient was saddled with this non-physical fertility work owed to the structural fact that contraceptive counseling visits in the U.S. do not typically include men (although, in some countries, vasectomy counseling visits do include female partners; Moses & Oloto, 2008). The lack of partner participation implicitly underscores and normalizes women’s non-physical fertility work and points to the overall dearth of engagement with men around issues of reproduction (Almeling & Waggoner, 2013). These encounters functioned to convey and construct the mental and emotional burdens of fertility work as normal and appropriately accruing to women, even when the contraceptive method worked in a male body.…”

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More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy

Kimport

2017

The Journal of Sex Research

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In the United States, responsibility for preventing pregnancy in heterosexual relationships disproportionately falls on women. While the biotechnological landscape of available methods may explain the assignment of the physical burden for contraception to women, this does not mean the concomitant time, attention, and stress that preventing pregnancy requires must also be primarily assumed by women. Building on work identifying health care providers as contributors to the construction of normative ideas about reproduction, this study analyzed 52 contraceptive counseling visits with women who reported they did not want future children for the construction of responsibility for the mental and emotional aspects of contraception. Offering a case of how gender inequality is (re)produced through clinical encounters, findings demonstrate that clinicians discursively constructed these responsibilities as women's and point to structural aspects of the visit itself that reify this unequal burden as normal. Results are consistent with research identifying the broader feminization of family health work in heterosexual relationships. To the extent that the distribution of the mental and emotional responsibilities of preventing pregnancy is both a product of and contributor to gender inequality, this analysis yields insight into the production-and possible deconstruction-of (reproductive) health care as a gendered social structure.

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More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy

Kimport

2017

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…These results substantiate the need to include men in PCC. Although not always acknowledged, men play a vital role in planning pregnancies with their partners and in having positive birth outcomes (38,49,50).…”

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Substance Use and Preconception Care: A Review of the Literature

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Liu³

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IJWHR

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“…This more inclusive definition would impact other groups of men who have concerns about their fertility, such as cancer patients. In using Daniels’ (2006) concept of “reproductive masculinity” and expanding it to include men who are not currently thought of as “reproducers” (Almeling & Waggoner, 2013), these findings illuminate the willingness of infertile and potentially infertile men to engage in discussions surrounding fertility. Thus, men must be brought back into the discussion of reproductive health at multiple time-points in their lives, as this discussion may not pose as much of a threat to their masculinity as previously thought.…”

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Masculinity, Mental Health, and Desire for Social Support Among Male Cancer and Infertility Patients

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By surveying men who are currently infertile (N = 251) and men who are potentially infertile (i.e., men with cancer; N = 195), the mental health consequences of reproductive masculinity, or the cultural assumption that men are virile and should be fathers, were investigated. There was no difference in depression levels between these two groups when controlling for demographic variables, suggesting that both groups of men have similar mental health needs. Since gendered notions of masculinity also suggest that men do not want to discuss their fertility health, their desire for online fertility-related social support was assessed. These findings suggest that most men do want to talk to others about fertility, which indicates that there is a need for more fertility-related social support. This research challenges some conceptions regarding masculinity, as men revealed an interest in accessing online social support related to fertility.

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More and Less than Equal

Cited by 87 publications

References 33 publications

More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy

More Than a Physical Burden: Women’s Mental and Emotional Work in Preventing Pregnancy

Substance Use and Preconception Care: A Review of the Literature

Masculinity, Mental Health, and Desire for Social Support Among Male Cancer and Infertility Patients

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