Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (Volume 4) (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. 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. Understanding the social history and urgent socialimplications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalancedand unjust approach to pregnancy prevention. The averageperson concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximatelythirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do soalone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken forgranted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In JustGet On the Pill, a keenly researched and incisive examination,Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes afundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovershow parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives ofmale and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender womeninto sex and ultimately into shouldering the burden for preventingpregnancy. Littlejohn draws on extensive interviews to documentthis gendered compulsory birth control-a phenomenon in which peoplewho give birth are held accountable for preventing and resolvingpregnancies in gender-constrained ways. She shows how this genderedapproach encroaches on reproductive autonomy and poses obstaclesfor preventing disease. While diverse cisgender women are thefocus, Littlejohn shows that they are not the only ones harmed bythis dynamic. Indeed, gendered approaches to birth control alsonegatively impact trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming peoplein overlooked ways. In tracing the divisive politics of pregnancyprevention, Littlejohn demonstrates that the gendered division oflabor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust "The average woman concerned about pregnancy spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. She largely does so alone using prescription birth control, a phenomenon often taken for granted as natural and beneficial in the United States. In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the "woman's method" and relinquish control of external condoms as the "man's method." She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease. In tracing the gendered politics of pregnancy prevention, Littlejohn argues that the gender division of labor in birth control is not natural. It is unjust"-- Provided by publisher