Distributing Condoms and Hope

The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-30670-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

Distributing Condoms and Hope is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the racially and economically stratified city of “Millerston” reproduce harm in the marginalized communities they are meant to serve.

Chris A. Barcelos makes space for the stories of young mothers, who often recognize the narrow ways that public health professionals respond to pregnancies. Barcelos's findings show that teachers, social workers, and nurses ignore systemic issues of race, class, and gender and instead advocate for individual-level solutions such as distributing condoms and promoting "hope." Through a lens of reproductive justice, Distributing Condoms and Hope imagines a different approach to serving marginalized youth—a support system that neither uses their lives as a basis for disciplinary public policies nor romanticizes their struggles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barcelos, Chris A.

Barcelos, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: This Is What Happens When You Get Pregnant as a Teenager 
1. Race, Pregnancy, and Power in Millerston
2. The Messy Narratives of Disidentifying with Teen Motherhood
3. "It's their culture": Youth Sexual Health Promotion as a Gendered Racial Project
4. Sex, Science, and What Teens Do When It’s Dark Outside
5. Educated Hope: Imagining Reproductive Justice in Millerston

Appendix A. Organizations and Projects in Millerston
Appendix B. Methodological Notes 
Notes 
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris A. Barcelos is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.