'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing a Threat of Degeneration

ISBN-13: 9780415553384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str.

Catriona I Macleod

Opis

This text outlines a critical view of 'teenage pregnancy' and abortion, arguing that the negative view of these issues relies on a particular understanding of adolescence. Why does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist?

Spis treści

1. Setting the Scene. 2. Adolescence as Transition? 3. Conundrums: Sex Education, "Teenage Pregnancy", and Decision-Making in the Context of Abortion. 4. The Invention of the "Social Problem" of Teenage Pregnancy. 5. Young Women and Abortion: The New Social Problem. 6. Othering: Race, Culture and "Teenage Pregnancy"/Abortion. 7. Managing the Threat of Degeneration. 8. Summary and Conclusions: Where to From Here?

O autorze

Catriona Macleod is Professor of Psychology at Rhodes University, South Africa. She has written extensively in national and international journals in the areas of teenage pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, methodological issues, feminist theory, and postcolonialism and Psychology.