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In Whose Hands

The Home Pregnancy Test and the Politics of Reproduction

Av Joan H. Robinson

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The home pregnancy test is a technology that can be purchased in drug stores, gas stations, and online, and the results are often casually posted to social media. But, as sociologist and attorney Joan Robinson argues, no technology is as simple as it appears. In Whose Hands traces this test from its origin story in a lab to its day-to-day existence in the hands of users, showing that mundane technologies matter, especially when they are used as tools of surveillance and self-surveillance. The book is the result of Robinson's fourteen-year exploration of the social life of the home pregnancy test, and it describes the breadth and beauty of people's messy reproductive lives today. Based on archival and legal research as well as interviews with home pregnancy test users, it shows how even those technologies that we use because they're convenient can be tools of shame, surveillance, and control.
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Joan H. Robinson is an associate professor of social science and law at City College, CUNY, in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies.

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"Robinson shows that we only know the rosy part of the story of the home pregnancy test. In Whose Hands is the best available socio-legal analysis of the other side. It reveals that the very qualities of the test that empower women—simplicity, low cost, accessibility, and accuracy—also render it a highly mobile tool for the surveillance of women's bodies and female morality. Robinson writes with great sensitivity and empathy and demonstrates how this mundane little test underpins a regime of surveillance made even more ominous in the wake of the Dobbs decision." - Gil Eyal, author of The Crisis of Expertise"In Whose Hands is engaging and accessible. Robinson's research data, methods, and analytical approaches are compelling." - Katrina Kimport, editor of When Roe Fell: How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible

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