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Summary:

This ethnographic documentary follows three young Dutch women in their contraceptive choices. It shows how the use of hormonal birth control for women from a young age on is normalized, institutionalized and encouraged through social norms. Since the pharmaceutical industry only produces birth control methods for women, women are also the ones that have to carry all health risks and sometimes unclear side effects. Making contraception a highly unequal responsibility. The film questions the way in which we have perceived the pill as a feminist trope - and reveals a gap of information between contraception, side effects and women's lived experience. Hopefully to start a discussion about women's right to make decisions about their own reproductive bodies and the institutionalized need to control it.

Contributors:

Diemen, Silke van , director

Universiteit Leiden > Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In Dutch and English with English subtitles.

Subjects:

Oral contraceptives — Side effects — Netherlands

Oral contraceptives — Social aspects — Netherlands

Oral contraceptives — Research — Netherlands

Contraceptives

Oral contraceptives — Side effects

Oral contraceptives

Oral contraceptives — Social aspects

Oral contraceptives — Research

Netherlands

Genres:

Documentary films

Ethnographic films

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2021).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (34 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1264103286

Other Control Numbers:

99414908500971 (source: VaAlASP)
5123580 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP5123580/avon