title: Women's experience with contraception from the perspective of gender.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the experience of women with contraception from the perspective of gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative and exploratory-descriptive study conducted at three basic healthcare units in the city of Lagoa Seca - PB, Brazil, with 15 women interviewed between January and May 2013. The content analysis technique was used to process the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data analysis led to the core category 'women's contraceptive choices and their relationship with gender dynamics', that subsequently led to the subcategories 'unequal construction of gender identities in childhood and adolescence', 'outcome of gender dynamics in (contra)ception during adolescence', and ' medicalisation of the female body'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was observed that the experience with contraception is related to the dynamics of gender, with the outcome of teenage pregnancy and the medicalization of the body.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Thalyta Francisca Rodrigues de
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Medeiros
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Sheila Milena Pessoa Dos
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alana Gonçalves
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Xavier
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Roberta Lima
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Saulo Rios
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Mariz
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: Fernanda Laísy Pereira de
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Sousa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001828:Body Image; D001938:Brazil; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003267:Contraception / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D062528:Medicalization; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult