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Acknowledgments ix

Part I. Overcoming Resistance: Constructing Alternative Sociotechnical Networks

1. Designing Technology and Masculinity 3

2. How Man Came to Be Included in the Contraceptive Research Agenda 19

3. Creating a Worldwide Laboratory for Synthesizing Hormonal Contraceptive Compounds 52

4. The Inaccessible Man: The Quest for Male Trial Participants and Test Locations 69

5. The Co-construction of Technologies and Risks 86

Part II. Configuring the User: Articulating and Performing Masculinities

6. The Politics of Language: Changing Family Planning Discourse to Include Men 113

7. Making Room for Men: Configuring Men as Clients of Family Planning Clinics 140

8. "The First Man on the Pill": Disciplining Men as Reliable Test Subjects 171

9. On Masculinities, Technologies, and Pain: The Testing of Male Contraceptives in the Clinic and Media 191

10. Articulating Acceptability 209

11. Technologies of Trust 225

Notes 243

Bibliography 269

Index 293