Conflicting contraceptive norms for men

Equal responsibility versus women’s bodily autonomy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15098986
AutoresLaurie James-Hawkins (0000-0002-8085-9346, University of Essex, autor correspondente), C Dalessandro (0000-0003-3780-8647, University of Colorado Boulder), Christie Sennott (0000-0002-3760-6271, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
Ano2019
Volume21
Fascículo3
Páginas263-277
Data de publicação2019-03-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2018.1464209
PMID29764310
OpenAlexW2801884319
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29
Referências citadas32

Most research investigating how men and women in heterosexual relationships negotiate contraceptive use focuses on the women's point of view. Using a sample of 44 interviews with men attending a western US university, this study examines norms governing men's participation in contraceptive use and pregnancy prevention and their responses to those norms. The paper demonstrates how competing norms around sexual health decision-making and women's bodily autonomy contribute to unintended outcomes that undermine young people's quest for egalitarian sexual relationships. While men largely agree that responsibility for sexual health decision-making should be shared with women, they also believe that women should have power over their own bodies and sexual health. However, the coexistence of these two competing norms - which call for both equal responsibility in decision-making and women's bodily autonomy - results in a disconnect between men saying that sexual health decision-making should be equal, but not always participating equally. Thus, men largely give contraceptive decision-making power over to women, putting the burden of pregnancy prevention onto women and letting men off the hook. It is concluded that men's negotiation of these competing norms reinforces unequal power and inequality in sexual relationships

Autonomy · Family planning · Negotiation · Political science · Population · Reproductive health · Sociology · Unintended pregnancy · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology