Book Group: Just Get on the Pill
Sat, Apr 29
|The Literary
Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2023, 6:00 PM
The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
About the Event
Book discussion led by Rev. Sally Fritsche, Associate Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana Champaign
Just Get on the Pill, by Krystale E. Littlejohn, Associate of Professor at University of Oregon
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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…