The Politics of Reproductive Benefits
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptive and Infertility Treatments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2369313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie King (0000-0002-2940-6077, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Madonna Harrington Meyer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-30 |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124397011001002 |
| PMID | 11655256 |
| OpenAlex | W2117926043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 35 |
Recent changes in access to contraceptive and infertility treatments in the state of Illinois, and across the United States more generally, have heightened class cleavages in access to reproductive health care benefits in the United States. Using data gleaned from government testimonies, public documents, and telephone interviews, the authors found that poor women have broad access to contraceptive coverage but very little access to infertility treatments, while working-and middle-class women have increasingly broad coverage of infertility treatments but spare coverage of contraceptives. These findings suggest that while the extreme measures of the eugenics movement are less frequently in evidence, class differences in access to reproductive services lead to an equally dualistic, albeit unstated, fertility policy in the United States: encouraging births among working- and middle-class families and discouraging births among the poor, particularly those on Medicaid
Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Eugenics · Family planning · Fertility · Health care · Infertility · Medicaid · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Population · Pregnancy · Public health · Reproductive health · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Cognitive and behavioral distancing from the poor
IVF global histories, USA
A limited market
The Social Construction of Infertility
Reproductive justice for the invisible infertile
Turning back the ticking clock
The Affordable Care Act and assisted reproductive technology use
Toward an Intersectional Psychological Science of Reproductive Norms
Silent and Infertile
The efficiency of a group‐specific mandated benefit revisited
Pregnancy Without Women
Intersections of Ethnicity and Social Class in Provider Advice Regarding Reproductive Health
Inequalities in (trans)national surrogacy
I'm trying to create, not destroy
Did I Choose a Birth Control Method Yet
Trying to Have your Own First; It's What you Do
Fiscal Externalities of Becoming a Parent
Reproductive Oppression Enters the Twenty-First Century
Women's Attitudes Toward Biomedical Technology for Infertility
It's Way out of my League
(Re) Honoring the Legacy of Jessie Bernard
Race-Ethnicity and Medical Services for Infertility
The Importance of Social Cues for Discretionary Health Services Utilization
Involuntary Childlessness, Reproductive Technology, and Social Justice
Reproductive Technology, Family Law, and the Postwelfare State
Surgical sterilization, regret, and race
Women, politics, and change
Toward a feminist theory of the state
Reproductive rights and wrongs
Recreating motherhood
Population policy & women's rights
Test-Tube Women
The woman in the body
The bell curve
Race, Class, and Gender in the U.S. Welfare State
Race, Class, and Gender in the U.S. Welfare State
The State and Working Women
Contextualizing biogenetic and reproductive technologies
The three political economies of the welfare state
Our bodies ourselves
Challenge to Social Security
Reforming Medicine
The Politics of Population Control
Population Control Politics
Test-tube women
Women, Work and Protest
Making Claims as Workers or Wives
Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship
The Politics of Population Control
Women, Race and Class
Playing by the Rules and Losing
Family Status and Poverty among Older Women
Industrial Segregation and the Gender Distribution of Fringe Benefits
Feminist Political Discourses
Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |