Unsettling the (presumed) settled: Contents and Discontents of Contraception in Aotearoa New Zealand

In January 2017, New Zealand’s medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe,  announced in a press release that its Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) had recommended a reclassification of certain oral contraceptives in order for them to be made available over the counter in pharmac...

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Published inHealth, culture and society (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Vol. 9; pp. 90 - 96
Main Author Appleton, N. S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 08.12.2017
Subjects
20th century
Abortion
Access
Birth control
Classification
Contraception
Contraceptives
Drugs
Eugenics
Indigenous peoples
Medical equipment
Medical supplies
Medicine
Oral contraceptives
Pharmacies
Reclassification
Women
New Zealand
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Summary:In January 2017, New Zealand’s medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe,  announced in a press release that its Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) had recommended a reclassification of certain oral contraceptives in order for them to be made available over the counter in pharmacies.  In A/NZ, a progressive temporal narrative has been established around contraception that begins with the heroic struggle of women at the turn of the 20th Century to get access to contraception and abortion as a way to manage their reproductive lives and progresses to the guaranteed access of contraceptives to women. My intention to interrogate the contemporary contraceptive reality is not a project to undermine the historically important moves women have made here in A/NZ; but, rather, to include new places of analysis including how indigenous communities experienced the same contraceptives moments differently under the gaze of a eugenics project.
ISSN:2161-6590
2161-6590
DOI:10.5195/HCS.2017.243