Fifty years of legal contraception in France:diffusion, medicalization, feminization
Collection: Population & Societies
n°549, November 2017
Abstract
The pill is the most widely used contraceptive method in France today. Is this also the case in other countries across the world? For the fiftieth anniversary of France’s Neuwirth Law legalizing contraception, Mireille Le Guen and her colleagues from the Junior Lab Contraception&Genre review five decades of contraception history in France, comparing the French context to other contraceptive situations in the world.
Author(s)
Mireille Le Guen , Alexandra Roux, Mylène Rouzaud-Cornabas, Leslie Fonquerne, Cécile Thomé and Cécile Ventola for the the Junior Lab Contraception&Genre