Just Get on the Pill

The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics

Krystale E. Littlejohn

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University of California Press
31 August 2021

Social & cultural history; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Gender studies, gender groups; Gender studies: women; Ethnic studies

Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention.

The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill, a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and ultimately into shouldering the burden for preventing pregnancy.

Littlejohn draws on extensive interviews to document this gendered compulsory birth control—a phenomenon in which people who give birth are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways. She shows how this gendered approach encroaches on reproductive autonomy and poses obstacles for preventing disease. While diverse cisgender women are the focus, Littlejohn shows that they are not the only ones harmed by this dynamic. Indeed, gendered approaches to birth control also negatively impact trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people in overlooked ways. In tracing the divisive politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn demonstrates that the gendered division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust.

By: Krystale E. Littlejohn
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520307452
ISBN 10: 0520307453
Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 31 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 His Condom 2 Her Birth Control 3 Don't Be a Bitch 4 Selective Selection Conclusion: Something Better Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Krystale E. Littlejohn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Her work has been published in Demography, Gender & Society, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior, among other outlets.

Reviews for Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics

'Contraceptive failures,' Littlejohn shows, occur for reasons of health, misinformation and finances, yes, but equally because of gendered motives and interactions that aren't discussed in classrooms or bedrooms. * Times Literary Supplement * Krystale E. Littlejohn shows how birth control hasn't been as empowering as society first hailed it to be, especially for marginalized populations. . . . A powerful read. * Mashable *