"Injectable Development": Depo-Provera and Creation of the Global South.

The article looks at Depo-Provera's uneven global distribution and reveals multiple ways communities thought about global power and persistent inequality at a moment of historic transition away from a world order structured by the logic of empires. It mentions that global dissemination of Depo- Prov...

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Publicado en:Radical History Review Vol. 2018; no. 131; pp. 82 - 105
Autor principal: Callaci, Emily
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press May2018
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Sumario:The article looks at Depo-Provera's uneven global distribution and reveals multiple ways communities thought about global power and persistent inequality at a moment of historic transition away from a world order structured by the logic of empires. It mentions that global dissemination of Depo- Provera contributed to the creation of the Global South. It talks about dissemination of long- acting reversible contraceptives, such as intrauterine devices and injectable hormonal contraceptives.