Sheoran Nayantara
a Department of Anthropology and Sociology , Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies , Geneva , Switzerland.
Med Anthropol. 2015;34(3):243-58. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2014.922081. Epub 2014 Sep 16.
Available without prescriptions in India since 2005, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) and their advertisements have provided women with increased contraceptive options and a vocabulary to talk about their reproductive lives. I draw on long-term fieldwork with women in urban India about ECPs, demonstrating a new form of 'stratified contraception' enabled by these pills and their advertisements. I posit that there are within India spaces that replicate the luxuries and privileges of the global North. These material conditions, I suggest, are replicated when it comes to contraception as there are hubs of women consumers of contraception and contraceptive advertising that participate in an 'imagined cosmopolitanism' within the global South in close proximity to 'contraceptive ghettos.' Moving beyond simplistic binaries, I outline three major stratifications along which women experience this medical technology and outline the implications for women and their contraceptive choices when notions of northern privilege exist in the 'South.'
自2005年起，紧急避孕药（ECPs）在印度无需处方即可获得，其广告为女性提供了更多的避孕选择以及用于谈论她们生殖生活的词汇。我借鉴了对印度城市女性关于紧急避孕药的长期实地调查，展示了由这些药丸及其广告促成的一种新的“分层避孕”形式。我认为在印度存在一些空间，它们复制了全球北方的奢华与特权。我指出，在避孕方面也存在类似情况，因为有避孕用品消费者和避孕广告的女性中心，这些中心在全球南方参与一种“想象中的世界主义”，且紧邻“避孕贫民区”。超越简单的二元划分，我概述了女性体验这项医疗技术的三个主要分层，并阐述了在“南方”存在北方特权观念时对女性及其避孕选择的影响。
