Information, identity, citizenship: Young women tell their stories about contraceptives

Description

This talk reports on my PhD thesis on midwives' provision of contraceptive information to young women in Sweden. Here I explore information literacy within everyday life, the specific empirical setting being that of young women’s evaluation of information sources before choosing a contraceptive. Since women’s sexual and reproductive health is a debated and even contested human right the empirical focus enabled me to discuss information literacy in relation to citizenship and democracy. I will present the design of the study, the analysis of the results and specifically the implications for the understanding of information literacy.

Period	2019 Aug 9
Held at	University of Western Ontario, Canada, Ontario
Degree of Recognition	International