Après la pilule. Le choix contraceptif des jeunes femmes à l’épreuve du rejet des hormones

Bibliographic Data

ID19035007
AuthorsCécile Thomé (0000-0002-3370-9206, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume36
Issue1
Pages87-96
Publication date2024-04-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSanté Publique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0995-3914 • E-ISSN: 2104-3841
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/spub.241.0087
PMID38580471
OpenAlexW4393977572
LanguageFR
Citations received4
References cited35

INTRODUCTION: Although the pill is still the contraceptive method most commonly used by young women in France, since the '00s there has been a decline in its use and a questioning of its centrality in the contraceptive norm. This questioning is part of a growing climate of mistrust toward hormonal methods. PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH: Based on an analysis of a corpus of twenty-one interviews with women aged between twenty and twenty-eight on the subject of contraceptive choice, this article aims to provide information on the ways in which rejection of hormones is expressed and to determine its concrete effects on the interviewees' contraceptive choices. RESULTS: The survey shows the prevalence of mistrust of hormones among the young women interviewed. This mistrust is rarely rooted in their contraceptive experience; with a few exceptions, it seems to be more diffuse. This mistrust is most often expressed by women when it comes to justifying stopping the pill, the logistical burden of which becomes increasingly heavy as the years go by. However, the vast majority of women who reject the use of hormones continue to use medical contraception, including hormonal contraception, as long as it is perceived to be easier to use than the pill. CONCLUSIONS: By questioning hormonal contraception, and the pill in particular, young women are denouncing the lack of choice: they are not asking for less contraception, but for contraception that is better suited to their needs

Art · Gynecology · Humanities · Political science · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Male Reproductive Health Studies · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Contraception