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In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over information about women's bodies.
However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over information about women's bodies.
However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
Part One: History
1. Designing the Home Pregnancy Test
2. Hormones
3. Urine and Blood
4. The Stick
Part Two: Culture
5. Tell Me Doctor
6. The Psychological Torture of a Beautiful Young Woman
7. There is No Pregnancy Without the Pregnancy Test
8. The Science Fiction of Pregnancy Testing
AfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781501376542 |
| ISBN-10: | 1501376543 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 540790 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Weingarten, Karen |
| Redaktion: |
Bogost, Ian
Schaberg, Christopher |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 161 x 116 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Karen Weingarten |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.03.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,164 kg |
Part One: History
1. Designing the Home Pregnancy Test
2. Hormones
3. Urine and Blood
4. The Stick
Part Two: Culture
5. Tell Me Doctor
6. The Psychological Torture of a Beautiful Young Woman
7. There is No Pregnancy Without the Pregnancy Test
8. The Science Fiction of Pregnancy Testing
AfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781501376542 |
| ISBN-10: | 1501376543 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 540790 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Weingarten, Karen |
| Redaktion: |
Bogost, Ian
Schaberg, Christopher |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 161 x 116 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Karen Weingarten |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.03.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,164 kg |
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