HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018
Avec le support du programme ANR ETHOPOL ANR-14-CE29-0002 SUR LE CHEMIN DE LA SERENITE Planificat... more Avec le support du programme ANR ETHOPOL ANR-14-CE29-0002 SUR LE CHEMIN DE LA SERENITE Planification familiale et gestion institutionnelle du potentiel reproducteur féminin En France, les Centres de Planification et d'Education Familiale proposent des consultations médicales et un accompagnement à la contraception et à l'IVG. A partir d'une enquête ethnographique réalisée dans deux unités de la région parisienne, cet article montre comment des institutions agissent, en pratique, sur le corps et la psyché des femmes. La prise en charge encourage le déploiement d'une nouvelle manière d'appréhender son potentiel reproducteur. Cette action -féministe dans son principe et son exercice -renforce les capacités des usagères et le contrôle qu'elles exercent sur leur corps et leur sexualité ; mais elle est aussi un projet politique qui, par le soin et le soutien, participe d'un processus de réforme de soi. Or ce travail, adossé à une définition normative de l'identité féminine, ne fait pas qu'émanciper. Il produit aussi de nouvelles logiques discriminatoires et renforce des hiérarchies raciales qui interrogent, dans le contexte français, les enjeux nationalistes et citoyens qui façonnent les questions reproductives et sexuelles. In France, CPEFs are local, public units where birth control and abortion are freely offered to women in need. Based upon an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two units located within the Paris suburbs, this article examines how institutions transform in practice women's bodies and psyches, as it promotes new ways of perceiving selves, bodies, and sexualities. Birth planning and abortion support, which are feminist projects (discursively and practically speaking), increase female agency and reinforce women's control over themselves, their bodies, and their reproductive capacities. These actions are highly political, as they promote a process of self-reform through care and support. However, this work upon self and others relies on a normative definition of female identity, which does not only emancipate: It also produces new discriminatory dynamics and enforces racial hierarchies, which -in the French context -raise question of nationalism and citizenship, and about the way these stakes currently frame reproductory and sexual issues.
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How do social scientists learn to write ?
How can we think about this practice reflexively Social
sciences combine multiple research operations : fieldwork,
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thought. This article aims to give an account of an
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part at the EHESS. Its purpose was to strengthen and train
our ability to write, while trying to test the forms of writing
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En France, les centres de planification et d'éducation familiale proposent des consultations médicales et un accompagnement à la contraception et à l'interruption volontaire de grossesse. À partir d'une enquête ethnographique réalisée dans deux unités de la région parisienne, cet article montre comment des institutions agissent, en pratique, sur le corps et la psyché des femmes. La prise en charge encourage le déploiement d'une nouvelle manière d'appréhender son potentiel reproducteur. Cette action-féministe dans son principe et son exercice-renforce les capacités des usagères et le contrôle qu'elles exercent sur leur corps et leur sexualité ; mais elle est aussi un projet politique qui, par le soin et le soutien, participe d'un processus de réforme de soi. Or ce travail, adossé à une définition normative de l'identité féminine, ne fait pas qu'émanciper. Il produit aussi de nouvelles logiques discriminatoires et renforce des hiérarchies raciales qui interrogent, dans le contexte français, les enjeux nationalistes et citoyens qui façonnent les questions reproductives et sexuelles. On the path to serenity. Family planning and the institutional management of female reproductive capacities In France, centers for family planning and education are local, public units where birth control and abortion are offered to women free of charge. Based on an ethnographic research conducted in two units located within the Paris region, this article shows how institutions transform, in practice, women's bodies and psyches. This coverage indeed encourages new ways of assessing one's reproductive potential. Birth planning and abortion support, which are feminist projects (discursively and practically speaking), strengthen female agency and reinforce women's control over themselves, their bodies, and their reproductive capacities. But these projects are also highly political in so far as they promote a process of self-reform through care and support. However, this work that relies on a normative definition of female identity is not only emancipatory. It also produces new discriminatory logics and reinforces racial hierarchies, which-in the French context-raise the question of nationalism and citizenship with regard to reproductory and sexual issues.