Quite the opposite of the cultural research project, I’m finding myself with much more information in this project. The learning has been great because it’s all on a topic I’m so interested in. I think I’ve learned in the project how to separate the different sections of a topic and how to define like what part of it is social vs cultural vs political, etc.

In the political portion of my project, I’ve learned some things that made me kind of mad. I don’t want to go into depth here, but I learned that people are morally against IUDs for a strange reason.

So I chose the Intrauterine Device (or IUD) as my topic for the Gender Lens project. I’ve always been extremely curious about the history this tiny device that prevents pregnancy for years at a time. My interest in it stems from the fact that I have one and it’s helped me so much since my body can’t handle the hormones in normal birth control (such as the Pill or Depo shots).

The research was relatively simple for various aspects. I used the Lane Community College library resources again to try to find good scholarly articles. I feel like the history of the IUD is fairly short, from it’s initial prototypes to major developments. But I want to hopefully use this to help educate women on this birth control option that many seem unaware of or misinformed on. There’s so much about it that’s just fascinating. Plus birth control is one of my favorite things to talk about and learn about, which sounds pretty bizarre when I think about it.

I’m excited to get this project going now that my research is nearly complete!

Post to add Gender Lens to categories.