The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies by Chikako Takeshita

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

Chikako Takeshita

238 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative medium-paced
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The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users. The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the s...

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