Outputs - Publications by the project team, and writing that engages with Contragestive Time.
Featured in the polyphony
Published
Baraitser P, Lohr PA, Sheldon S. Clinically unjustified and outdated restrictions on contragestives mean that fertility services are failing women in Britain. BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2025 Oct 10;51(4):bmjsrh-2024-202604. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2024-202604. PMID: 40194826.
The project team introduces Contragestive Time and the questions behind it in the polyphony, the journal of Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities.
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Publications - Published
Published
Baraitser P, Lohr PA, Sheldon S. Clinically unjustified and outdated restrictions on contragestives mean that fertility services are failing women in Britain. BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2025 Oct 10;51(4):bmjsrh-2024-202604. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2024-202604. PMID: 40194826.
Isard, H. & Sandford, S. et al., (2026) 'What is contragestive time? Pregnant uncertainties in fertility control', The Polyphony, 1 October. Available at: https://thepolyphony.org/2026/10/01/what-is-contragestive-time-pregnant-uncertainties-in-fertility-control/ (Accessed: 5 October 2026).
Baraitser, L., Baraitser, P., Sandford, S., (2026) ‘Contragestive Time: Psychoanalytic notes on reproductive timing’. In Analyzing Abortion: Global perspectives on the attack on reproductive freedoms. Eds., Shelley Nathans and Lynne Zeavin. Routledge: New York..
Baraitser, L., Baraitser, P., Sandford, S., (2026) ‘Contragestive Time: Psychoanalytic notes on reproductive timing’. In Analyzing Abortion: Global perspectives on the attack on reproductive freedoms. Eds., Shelley Nathans and Lynne Zeavin. Routledge: New York..
Publications - Under Review
Publications - Under Review
S Sheldon and E Caruso, ‘Minding the Gap: Contragestive Futures and Regulatory Barriers’.
S Sheldon and E Caruso, ‘Minding the Gap: Contragestive Futures and Regulatory Barriers’.
Publications - In Preparation:
Publications - In Preparation:
Caruso, E., Sheldon S., ‘Contragestion’. Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice (Edward Elgar Publishing), edited by Dana Repka and Rebecca Cook.
Isard, H., Contragestive Uncertainties, The Polyphony.
Baraitser, P, Unnithan, M., Baraitser, L. Emerging concepts in contraceptive care: reflections on subjectivity, care and time in fertility.
Mills, R., Baraitser, P. The changing persona of ulipristal acetate as it crosses the contraception/abortion divide.
Isard, H. “Originators of the concept”: Intent in the case of Johnson v Calvert.
Mills R., Baraitser P. Contragestion: a Realist Review
Caruso, E., Sheldon S., ‘Contragestion’. Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice (Edward Elgar Publishing), edited by Dana Repka and Rebecca Cook.
Isard, H., Contragestive Uncertainties, The Polyphony.
Baraitser, P, Unnithan, M., Baraitser, L. Emerging concepts in contraceptive care: reflections on subjectivity, care and time in fertility.
Mills, R., Baraitser, P. The changing persona of ulipristal acetate as it crosses the contraception/abortion divide.
Isard, H. “Originators of the concept”: Intent in the case of Johnson v Calvert.
Mills R., Baraitser P. Contragestion: a Realist Review.
