Please join us for a job talk by Dr. Lindsay Stevens, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, NJ. Talk title and abstract are below. No RSVP Required.
Title: Planned? Medicine, Inequality, and Pregnancy in the United States
Abstract: In this presentation, I introduce my book, Planned? Medicine, Inequality, and Pregnancy in the United States, and then zoom in on one of its core themes: unintended pregnancy as a social problem. In US public health and policy, we typically ask "Why is unintended pregnancy so common?," but I take a different point of departure, asking, "Why is unintended pregnancy considered to be so problematic?" Drawing on rich qualitative data with family planning clinicians and women in the midst of managing their fertility, I show how unintended pregnancy gets constructed a pressing social problem not primarily because of its adverse impacts on women themselves, but because of normative expectations about who should be a parent.
