Siân M Beynon‐jone
Biographic Data
| ID | 293157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siân M Beynon‐jone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siân M |
| FAMILY NAME | Beynon‐jone |
| SIGNATURE | JONE S M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6795-7101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Thinking With Post-Birth Bodies: Articulating Sociological Care for Bodies That Function Differently After Birth
This paper articulates a sociological approach to bodies that function differently after birth. We suggest that post-birth bodies are distributed across a variety of areas of existing scholarship and that this can make it difficult to grapple with experiences that encompass gestation, altered functioning/injury, parenting and medical knowledge. We review and synthesise this rich literature to illustrate how it can be mobilised to sociologically t…
Affect, action, and incommensurability: Finding law and time in UK Mass Observation diarists’ accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Working with colleagues in 2020 on the A Day at a Time project, we commissioned a directive from the United Kingdom’s Mass Observation Project for volunteer writers to record their changing experience of time during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our specific task was to try to understand how people were living and creating legal temporalities during this moment of upheaval. The responses were rich, detailed, valuable, yet often seemingly incommensurable…
Talking cervixes: How times materialise during the first stage of labour
The clock occupies a prominent position in many feminist and midwifery critiques of the medicalisation of labour and birth. Concern has long focused on the production of standardised 'progress' during labour via the expectation that once in 'established' labour, birthing people's cervixes should dilate at a particular rate, measurable in centimetres and clock time. In this article we draw on 37 audio- or video-recordings of women labouring in two…
The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the Covid‐19 pandemic
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care
Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture's relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in archi…
Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice
Articulating reproductive justice through reparative justice: Case studies of abortion in Great Britain and South Africa
Public health and rights-based approaches to abortion advocacy are well established. Feminists are, however, increasingly using a broader framework of 'reproductive justice', which considers the intersecting conditions that serve to enhance or hinder women's reproductive freedoms, including their capacities to decide about the outcome of their pregnancies. Nonetheless, reproductive justice approaches to abortion are, conceptually, relatively unde…
Untroubling abortion: A discourse analysis of women’s accounts
In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women's accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women's experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it by failing to consider how identities are continually …
Gestating times: Women's accounts of the temporalities of pregnancies that end in abortion in England
Tensions between the 'clock time' of medicine and the embodied times of its subjects are central to feminist writing concerning Western obstetric practice. In this article, I expand the focus of this literature by addressing the temporal dynamics of another site of reproductive healthcare: abortion provision. Echoing obstetric accounts of birth, time in legal, healthcare and social scientific discourse on abortion is routinely conceptualised as a…
Re-visioning Ultrasound through Women's Accounts of Pre-abortion Care in England
Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the importance of sustained critical engagement with ultrasound visualizations of pregnant women's bodies. In response to portrayals of these images as 'objective' forms of knowledge about the fetus, it has drawn attention to the social practices through which the meanings of ultrasound are produced. This article makes a novel contribution to this project by addressing an empirical context that has been negle…
We view that as contraceptive failure: Containing the 'multiplicity' of contraception and abortion within Scottish reproductive healthcare
Within contemporary Scottish policy guidance, abortion is routinely configured as evidence of a resolvable problem with the healthcare provision of contraception. This article draws on 42 semi-structured interviews with Scottish health professionals conducted during 2007-2008, in order to explore how, and in what form, realities of contraception/abortion are sustained within abortion practice. In addition to providing empirical insights concernin…
Expecting Motherhood? Stratifying Reproduction in 21st-century Scottish Abortion Practice
This article illustrates how Scottish health professionals involved in contemporary abortion provision construct stratified expectations about women's reproductive decision-making. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews I reveal the contingent discourses through which health professionals constitute the 'rationality' of the female subject who requests abortion. Specifically, I illustrate how youth, age, parity and class are mobilised as criteri…
‘Reflex regulation’: An anatomy of promissory science governance
With reference to two comparative UK biotechnology case studies, spanning recent decades, this article outlines the main features of what might usefully be expressed as ‘reflex regulation’. This includes a set of reactive institutional habits, routines and reflexes that continue to characterise the regulation of the biosciences in the UK. Methodologically, the article draws on long-term social scientific engagement with policy-making in the field…
Timing is everything: The demarcation of ‘later’ abortions in Scotland
Feminist STS analyses of contemporary reproductive medicine have illustrated the proliferation of practices that position fetuses as individual subjects, and have highlighted the major implications of such practices for pregnant women. In an attempt to challenge medicine's claims to 'know' the fetus, this body of literature has also demonstrated the renegotiable basis of pregnant/fetal subjectivity, using detailed empirical analyses of the practi…
Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology , and: The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making , and: Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (review)
Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and Recipients – By M. Konrad
Gestating times: Women's accounts of the temporalities of pregnancies that end in abortion in England
Tensions between the 'clock time' of medicine and the embodied times of its subjects are central to feminist writing concerning Western obstetric practice. In this article, I expand the focus of this literature by addressing the temporal dynamics of another site of reproductive healthcare: abortion provision. Echoing obstetric accounts of birth, time in legal, healthcare and social scientific discourse on abortion is routinely conceptualised as a…
Re-visioning Ultrasound through Women's Accounts of Pre-abortion Care in England
Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the importance of sustained critical engagement with ultrasound visualizations of pregnant women's bodies. In response to portrayals of these images as 'objective' forms of knowledge about the fetus, it has drawn attention to the social practices through which the meanings of ultrasound are produced. This article makes a novel contribution to this project by addressing an empirical context that has been negle…
Expecting Motherhood? Stratifying Reproduction in 21st-century Scottish Abortion Practice
This article illustrates how Scottish health professionals involved in contemporary abortion provision construct stratified expectations about women's reproductive decision-making. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews I reveal the contingent discourses through which health professionals constitute the 'rationality' of the female subject who requests abortion. Specifically, I illustrate how youth, age, parity and class are mobilised as criteri…
Untroubling abortion: A discourse analysis of women’s accounts
In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women's accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women's experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it by failing to consider how identities are continually …
Timing is everything: The demarcation of ‘later’ abortions in Scotland
Feminist STS analyses of contemporary reproductive medicine have illustrated the proliferation of practices that position fetuses as individual subjects, and have highlighted the major implications of such practices for pregnant women. In an attempt to challenge medicine's claims to 'know' the fetus, this body of literature has also demonstrated the renegotiable basis of pregnant/fetal subjectivity, using detailed empirical analyses of the practi…
We view that as contraceptive failure: Containing the 'multiplicity' of contraception and abortion within Scottish reproductive healthcare
Within contemporary Scottish policy guidance, abortion is routinely configured as evidence of a resolvable problem with the healthcare provision of contraception. This article draws on 42 semi-structured interviews with Scottish health professionals conducted during 2007-2008, in order to explore how, and in what form, realities of contraception/abortion are sustained within abortion practice. In addition to providing empirical insights concernin…
The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the Covid‐19 pandemic
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
Thinking With Post-Birth Bodies: Articulating Sociological Care for Bodies That Function Differently After Birth
This paper articulates a sociological approach to bodies that function differently after birth. We suggest that post-birth bodies are distributed across a variety of areas of existing scholarship and that this can make it difficult to grapple with experiences that encompass gestation, altered functioning/injury, parenting and medical knowledge. We review and synthesise this rich literature to illustrate how it can be mobilised to sociologically t…
Talking cervixes: How times materialise during the first stage of labour
The clock occupies a prominent position in many feminist and midwifery critiques of the medicalisation of labour and birth. Concern has long focused on the production of standardised 'progress' during labour via the expectation that once in 'established' labour, birthing people's cervixes should dilate at a particular rate, measurable in centimetres and clock time. In this article we draw on 37 audio- or video-recordings of women labouring in two…
Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care
Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture's relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in archi…
Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and Recipients – By M. Konrad
Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology , and: The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making , and: Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (review)
Timing is everything: The demarcation of ‘later’ abortions in Scotland
Feminist STS analyses of contemporary reproductive medicine have illustrated the proliferation of practices that position fetuses as individual subjects, and have highlighted the major implications of such practices for pregnant women. In an attempt to challenge medicine's claims to 'know' the fetus, this body of literature has also demonstrated the renegotiable basis of pregnant/fetal subjectivity, using detailed empirical analyses of the practi…
‘Reflex regulation’: An anatomy of promissory science governance
With reference to two comparative UK biotechnology case studies, spanning recent decades, this article outlines the main features of what might usefully be expressed as ‘reflex regulation’. This includes a set of reactive institutional habits, routines and reflexes that continue to characterise the regulation of the biosciences in the UK. Methodologically, the article draws on long-term social scientific engagement with policy-making in the field…
We view that as contraceptive failure: Containing the 'multiplicity' of contraception and abortion within Scottish reproductive healthcare
Within contemporary Scottish policy guidance, abortion is routinely configured as evidence of a resolvable problem with the healthcare provision of contraception. This article draws on 42 semi-structured interviews with Scottish health professionals conducted during 2007-2008, in order to explore how, and in what form, realities of contraception/abortion are sustained within abortion practice. In addition to providing empirical insights concernin…
Expecting Motherhood? Stratifying Reproduction in 21st-century Scottish Abortion Practice
This article illustrates how Scottish health professionals involved in contemporary abortion provision construct stratified expectations about women's reproductive decision-making. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews I reveal the contingent discourses through which health professionals constitute the 'rationality' of the female subject who requests abortion. Specifically, I illustrate how youth, age, parity and class are mobilised as criteri…
Re-visioning Ultrasound through Women's Accounts of Pre-abortion Care in England
Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the importance of sustained critical engagement with ultrasound visualizations of pregnant women's bodies. In response to portrayals of these images as 'objective' forms of knowledge about the fetus, it has drawn attention to the social practices through which the meanings of ultrasound are produced. This article makes a novel contribution to this project by addressing an empirical context that has been negle…
Articulating reproductive justice through reparative justice: Case studies of abortion in Great Britain and South Africa
Public health and rights-based approaches to abortion advocacy are well established. Feminists are, however, increasingly using a broader framework of 'reproductive justice', which considers the intersecting conditions that serve to enhance or hinder women's reproductive freedoms, including their capacities to decide about the outcome of their pregnancies. Nonetheless, reproductive justice approaches to abortion are, conceptually, relatively unde…
Untroubling abortion: A discourse analysis of women’s accounts
In this paper, I highlight key differences between a discourse analytic approach to women's accounts of abortion and that taken by the growing body of research that seeks to explore and measure women's experiences of abortion stigma. Drawing on critical analyses of the conceptualisation of stigma in other fields of healthcare, I suggest that research on abortion stigma often risks reifying it by failing to consider how identities are continually …
Gestating times: Women's accounts of the temporalities of pregnancies that end in abortion in England
Tensions between the 'clock time' of medicine and the embodied times of its subjects are central to feminist writing concerning Western obstetric practice. In this article, I expand the focus of this literature by addressing the temporal dynamics of another site of reproductive healthcare: abortion provision. Echoing obstetric accounts of birth, time in legal, healthcare and social scientific discourse on abortion is routinely conceptualised as a…
Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice
Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care
Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture's relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in archi…
The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the Covid‐19 pandemic
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
Affect, action, and incommensurability: Finding law and time in UK Mass Observation diarists’ accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Working with colleagues in 2020 on the A Day at a Time project, we commissioned a directive from the United Kingdom’s Mass Observation Project for volunteer writers to record their changing experience of time during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our specific task was to try to understand how people were living and creating legal temporalities during this moment of upheaval. The responses were rich, detailed, valuable, yet often seemingly incommensurable…
Talking cervixes: How times materialise during the first stage of labour
The clock occupies a prominent position in many feminist and midwifery critiques of the medicalisation of labour and birth. Concern has long focused on the production of standardised 'progress' during labour via the expectation that once in 'established' labour, birthing people's cervixes should dilate at a particular rate, measurable in centimetres and clock time. In this article we draw on 37 audio- or video-recordings of women labouring in two…
Thinking With Post-Birth Bodies: Articulating Sociological Care for Bodies That Function Differently After Birth
This paper articulates a sociological approach to bodies that function differently after birth. We suggest that post-birth bodies are distributed across a variety of areas of existing scholarship and that this can make it difficult to grapple with experiences that encompass gestation, altered functioning/injury, parenting and medical knowledge. We review and synthesise this rich literature to illustrate how it can be mobilised to sociologically t…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Pregnancy (8 works) · Abortion (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (7 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)