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A Little Bit Pregnant? Productive Ambiguity and Fertility Research
Population and Development Review ( IF 10.515 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 , DOI: 10.1111/padr.12403
Suzanne O. Bell , Mary E. Fissell

Fertility researchers rely upon a simple binary: pregnant versus not pregnant. However, this conceptualization does not capture many women's experiences, both historically and in numerous settings today. We suggest that pregnancy status may be a much more ambiguous state, and that such ambiguity is often productive for women. Building a culturally sensitive understanding of what we are calling “productive ambiguity” can foster more rigorous studies of fertility that better capture potential pregnancy and the range of post-coital fertility-inhibiting actions women take, both intentionally and not. In this paper, we aim to: 1) describe the ambiguity that exists around pregnancy; 2) explain the ways in which this ambiguity is productive for women; 3) analyze two concrete examples of such ambiguity in practice: the case of menstrual regulation and the unexpected conceptual overlaps between contraception and early abortion in a variety of settings, and finally; 4) suggest ways that this more nuanced understanding might inform fertility research, including abortion measurement research. We combine recent qualitative and quantitative data with historical sources to analyze the cultural logics and power dynamics of this ambiguity.

中文翻译:

有点怀孕?生产性歧义和生育力研究

生育研究人员依赖于一个简单的二元性:怀孕与未怀孕。然而,这种概念化并没有捕捉到许多女性的经历,无论是在历史上还是在当今众多环境中。我们认为怀孕状态可能是一种更加模糊的状态,而这种模糊性对于女性来说通常是有益的。建立对我们所谓的“生产性模糊”的文化敏感理解可以促进对生育能力的更严格研究,从而更好地捕捉潜在的怀孕以及女性有意或无意采取的性交后生育抑制行为的范围。在本文中,我们的目标是:1)描述围绕怀孕存在的歧义;2) 解释这种模糊性对女性产生影响的方式;3)分析实践中这种歧义的两个具体例子:月经调节的情况以及在各种情况下避孕和早期流产之间意外的概念重叠,最后;4) 提出这种更细微的理解可能为生育研究提供信息的方式,包括堕胎测量研究。我们将最近的定性和定量数据与历史资料相结合,分析这种模糊性的文化逻辑和权力动态。
更新日期:2021-07-02
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