2017, Number 4
Discourses of the body; contraceptives and birth control. Mexico at the beginning of the decade of the seventies
Solís-Hernández O, Silva-Acosta JA
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 197-198
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ABSTRACT
Introduction. After the sexual revolution of 1960-1970, access to contraceptive methods was combined with public policies and laws on health, work and population, to generate a new relationship between women, family and work. This led to the emergence of a new profile of a more liberated woman, which was opposed by institutional discourses that defended the roles of the heterosexual family and the division of labor between the housewife and the providing father. Material and methods. A hemerographic and bibliographic study that, based on discourse analysis, evaluates the relationship between religious and medical discourses regarding the use of contraceptive methods and their social, historical, and cultural repercussions. Results. Discourses are identified to control the birth rate with approved methods by the Church and / or doctors, who sought to discourage the use of contraceptives by associating their use with illnesses and health conditions. Conclusions. The discourses of the body became control "devices" to regulate female sexuality; however, in the face of these discourses, there was resistance made evident by the use of contraceptive methods, the decrease in the birth rate and the reduction of the average number of children.REFERENCES