What’s a Guy To Do?: Contraceptive Responsibility, Confronting Masculinity, and the History of Vasectomy in Canada

Shropshire, Sarah

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“…Similarly, albeit based on a large interview study with Mexican urology patients, anthropologist Emily Wentzell (2013;this issue) examines what men say and do when they negotiate reproductive aging and erectile dysfunction. Social-scientific scholarship has also explored how masculinity and reproduction entangle in ethnographic accounts of sperm donors (e.g., Almeling 2011;Mohr 2018), during contraceptive decision-making among men in Central and South America (e.g., Gutmann 2005;Wentzell 2013), in historical accounts of eugenic and sterilization practices (e.g., Balasubramanian 2018;Dyck 2013;Shropshire 2014), and in the history of hormonal contraceptives for men (e.g., Campo-Engelstein et al 2019;Oudshoorn 2003). There are also ethnographic accounts of men's experiences with infertility and in-vitro fertilization (IVF), including cultural ideals of masculinity (e.g., Inhorn 2012;Tjørnhøj-Thomsen 2009) as well as in cultural analyses that situate sperm as a normatively gendered fluid (Martin 1991;Moore 2007).…”

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For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts

Kroløkke

2021

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Sperm swimming in circles or a lone sperm cell with two heads: male reproductive aging is increasingly equated with poor sperm quality, the prevalence of offspring learning disabilities even schizophrenia. To discuss the construction of a male biological clock, this article asks: how does the biological clock intervene in men’s reproductive bodies. And secondly: how is male repro-temporality visually and rhetorically invoked in fertility campaigns, in medical scientific accounts and in the marketing material of one elective sperm-freezing company? Situated within an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, the article draws upon biomedicalization theory (e.g. Clarke et al. 2003), reproductive masculinity studies (e.g. Daniels 2006; Almeling and Waggoner 2013), and social scientific theorizing of time and temporality (e.g. Amir 2006; van de Wiel 2014a; 2014b) to discuss the emergence of male repro-temporality. This article contributes to the interdisciplinary scholarly agenda on time and temporality by theorizing the emergence of a male biological clock as a type of repro-temporality that, in its discursive and aesthetic framing, portrays male reproductive aging as involving loss and disability. The article concludes that while the biological clock derives its temporal force from the logic of decay, it simultaneously cements heteronormative ideals of the nuclear family, re-naturalizes the genetic unit, and situates men as proactive and modern in their anticipation of future infertility.

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For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts

Kroløkke

2021

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Technologies of Contraception and Abortion

Olszynko-Gryn¹

2018

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Soon to turn 60, the oral contraceptive pill still dominates histories of technology in the 'sexual revolution' and after. 1 'The pill' was revolutionary for many, though by no means all women in the West, but there have always been alternatives and looking globally yields a different picture. 2 The condom, intra-uterine device (IUD), surgical sterilization (male and female) and abortion were all transformed in the twentieth century, some more than once. Today, female sterilization (tubal ligation) and IUDs are the world's most commonly used technologies of contraception. The pill is in third place, followed closely by the condom. Long-acting hormonal injections are most frequently used in parts of Africa, male sterilization by vasectomy is unusually prevalent in Britain, and some one in five pregnancies worldwide end in induced abortion. Though contraceptive use has generally increased in recent decades, the disparity between rich and poor countries is striking: the former tend to use condoms and pills, the latter sterilization and IUDs. 3

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“In the Image and Likeness of God”: Christianity and Public Opinion on Abortion inThe Globe and Mailduring the 1960s

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Douville²

2016

Journal of Canadian Studies

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During the 1960s, Canadians were grappling with the social and legal changes that directly affected women’s reproductive lives. One of the contexts in which these changes were occurring was the growing secularization of society. The authors’ analysis of letters to the editors of the Globe and Mail on abortion, however, reveals that over 70% of the letters referenced religious beliefs or institutions. The authors use these letters to explore the ways that readers who commented on abortion referenced religion to legitimize their positions. Specifically, they explore the expressions of the place of Christian beliefs and institutions in discussions of law reform and ideas about women’s roles in a modernizing Canadian society. Examination of the readers’ letters on abortion illuminates perceptions of the churches’ place in a modernizing society, and the degree to which churches were seen as responsive and responsible to their constituents. While religion was a contested field in the abortion law reform debate of the 1960s, it was not ignored; this analysis helps to complicate our understandings of secularization in Canada during the 1960s.

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What’s a Guy To Do?: Contraceptive Responsibility, Confronting Masculinity, and the History of Vasectomy in Canada

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts

For Whom Does the Clock Tick?: Male Repro-Temporality in Fertility Campaigns, Scientific Literature, and Commercial Accounts

Technologies of Contraception and Abortion

“In the Image and Likeness of God”: Christianity and Public Opinion on Abortion inThe Globe and Mailduring the 1960s

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