‘You’re 16…you should probably be on the pill’: Girls, the non-reproductive body, and the rhetoric of self-control

In this paper I explore the ways that the use of the pill and the ideal of the non-reproductive body intersect within the unique context of girls as subjects in contemporary Canadian society. Analysis draws on a series of twenty-seven qualitative interviews conducted in Montreal as part of my doctor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renaud Beeckmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2014-01-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4215/