Alexandra Afsary
Research Expert - Swiss - Fribourg - Fribourg
Role
Scientific collaborator and doctoral student in social sciences
Organization
Haute école de travail social Fribourg et Université de Lausanne
City of the organization
Fribourg et Lausanne
Spoken languages
French
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Modification Date
1 March 2023Biography
Alexandra Afsary is a socio-anthropologist of the body, sexuality and contraception from a gender perspective. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis at the University of Lausanne on the contraceptive experiences of people in French-speaking Switzerland in a context of questioning hormonal contraception. In her research, she is particularly interested in the relationship of women to their bodies and to medical and health institutions. She is currently a scientific collaborator at the University of Social Work Fribourg.
Publications
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- 2021
De la contraception hormonale à la contraception « naturelle » : Postféminisme et transformation du rapport à soi
In Balard, F. et Voléry, I. (eds.), La médicalisation des âges en France, Nancy : Presses Universitaires Nancy. -
- 2019
Pratiques sous surveillance : le vécu de la prescription de contraception féminine en Suisse romande
In Martin, H. et Roca i Escoda M. (eds.), Sexuer le corps. Huit études sur des pratiques médicales d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Lausanne : Editions HETSL
Media appearances
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L'Uniscope - 2022
En matière de contraception, le savoir c'est le pouvoir
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RTS - 36,9° - 2017
Contraception: cette pilule qui ne passe plus