Pilule : défaire l'évidence

Discover the book Pilule : défaire l'évidence by Alexandra Roux, published on October 13, 2022 in the "Interventions" collection of Éditions de la MSH.

Following the recent "pill crisis" of the third and fourth generations, women are rejecting this method of contraception more and more. Why then is the pill so widely prescribed in France, despite the criticism it raises? How did it become such a medical necessity when it is not in other countries? These questions, addressed in the book, are all the more crucial as this medical standard is not without consequences: it leads to the conflation of "pill" and "contraception", and to the definition of contraception exclusively as a "women's issue".

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L'autrice

Alexandra Roux est sociologue. Elle a soutenu sa thèse « Par amour des femmes » ? La pilule contraceptive en France, genèse d'une évidence sociale et médicale (1960-2000) à l'EHESS. Elle intervient régulièrement dans des médias tels que le Huffington Post, The Conversation, Slate ou encore La Croix.

Dans la presse

• La pilule, c'est pas automatique, Urbania.fr, 14 décembre 2022
• Contraception : qui a fait passer la pilule ?, émission Sans oser le demander (France culture), 13 octobre 2022