Agency‐without‐Choice: The visual rhetorics of long‐acting reversible contraception promotion

ES Mann, PR Grzanka - Symbolic Interaction, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This manuscript reports the findings of a critical visual discourse analysis of long‐acting
reversible contraception (LARC) promotion materials. The authors argue that these …

Reproductive anxiety and conditional agency at the intersections of privilege: A focus group study of emerging adults' perception of long‐acting reversible …

PR Grzanka, E Schuch - Journal of Social Issues, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Public health officials and major health care organizations in the United States have
identified long‐acting reversible contraception (LARC) as the first‐line option for preventing …

The age of LARC: making sexual citizens on the frontiers of technoscientific healthism

JD Brian, PR Grzanka, ES Mann - Health Sociology Review, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Routinely positioned as the 'first-line option'for contraceptive choice-making, long-acting
reversible contraception (LARC) promotion efforts have come under critical scrutiny by …

Patient-provider power relations in counselling on long-acting reversible contraception: a discursive study of provider perspectives

T Morison - Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Contraceptive providers play an essential role in shaping contraceptive decision-making
and care, with the potential to constrain patients' agency. This is a particular concern given …

Reproductive oppression enters the twenty-first century: pressure to use long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in the context of “LARC first”

MCW Eeckhaut, Y Hara - Socius, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The common emphasis on the superior pregnancy protection of long-acting reversible
contraception (LARC) may result in medical providers' pressuring women, especially those …

Celebration meets caution: LARC's boons, potential busts, and the benefits of a reproductive justice approach

JA Higgins - Contraception, 2014 - contraceptionjournal.org
Few developments have received as much attention or palpable enthusiasm in the
reproductive field in recent decades as long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). Though …

Beyond a legacy of coercion: Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and social justice

S Meier, B Sundstrom, AL DeMaria… - Women's Reproductive …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
One half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists has recommended long-acting reversible contraception …

[HTML][HTML] The power of persuasion: normative accountability and clinicians' practices of contraceptive counseling

ES Mann - SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Efforts to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by expanding access to and use of
a new generation of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in recent years led to the …

Reproducing “rhetrickery” in online fertility marketing: harnessing the “rhetoric of the possible”

J Takhar, K Pemberton - Gender After Gender in Consumer …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This article addresses the gap in research on visual and narrative persuasion in online
fertility marketing contexts and reveals their reliance on rhetorical ruses embedded in the …

Keep calm and LARC on: a theory-based long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) access campaign

B Sundstrom, D Billings, KE Zenger - Journal of Communication in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: In South Carolina, almost half of all pregnancies among women in
their twenties are unintended. Advocates for Youth partnered with researchers and students …