scholarly journals The Increasingly Leaky Stigma of the ‘Pregnant Teen’: When Does ‘Young Motherhood’ Cease to be Problematic?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bekaert ◽  
Joelle Bradly
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Teen

Reality Check! Perceptions of MTV’s Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom and Dating Violence Attitudes and Experiences

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051984477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Anne E. Rodenhizer ◽  
Laura Siller ◽  
Ashley R. MacPherson ◽  
Katie M. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Dating Violence ◽  
Reality Check ◽  
Teen Mom ◽  
Pregnant Teen ◽  
Violence Attitudes

scholarly journals Fried eggs and all-women gangs: the geopolitics of Chinese gold mining in Ghana, bodily vulnerability, and resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
Heidi Hausermann ◽  
Janet Adomako ◽  
Maya Robles
Keyword(s):  
Teen Pregnancy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
Feminist Geopolitics ◽  
Supportive Interventions ◽  
Pregnant Teen ◽  
Political Economic

Between 2008 and 2016, more than 50,000 Chinese citizens migrated to Ghana to mine gold on small-scale concessions. This is particularly surprising given that small-scale mining is an activity reserved for Ghanaian citizens. Foreign gold mining is mediated by various intersecting political economic and geopolitical shifts, including unprecedented gold demand, economic crisis, and informal conditions to Chinese loans. Based on long-term, mixed-methods fieldwork, and drawing from feminist geopolitics research, we argue Ghana’s recent gold rush portends gendered implications for bodies in rural areas. We center our discussion on bodies to demonstrate the ways extractive practices increase vulnerability among women and children, including teen pregnancy and mercury exposure. Yet, women also contest foreign mining and its myriad implications (e.g., refusing to sell land and entering sites while menstruating despite being “forbidden” to do so). A feminist geopolitics perspective allows the tracing of specific political economic processes (Chinese monetary policies, informal loan conditions) to other sites (Pokukrom, the pregnant teen), thereby enabling a clearer understanding of how supportive interventions might occur.

Book ReviewThe Pregnant Teen-Ager.

1969 ◽  
Vol 280 (20) ◽  
pp. 1132-1133
Author(s):  
John Wagner Grover
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Teen

“Coming Out Crip” in Inclusive Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (10) ◽  
pp. 2155-2185
Author(s):  
Nirmala Erevelles
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Pregnant Teen ◽  
Background Context

Background/Context The author argues that within inclusive education's almost obsessive focus on space, there is a tendency to ignore the ideological assumptions that undergird the curricular and extracurricular practices in schools that serve to construct certain student subjectivities as deviant, disturbing, and dangerous, thereby justifying their exclusion. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study Sexuality is one such discourse that challenges naïve notions of inclusion. Heteronormative in its ideological content, discourses of sexuality, being both restricted and restrictive, play a critical role in defining the “normal” child, while at the same time intervening in the most personal/private space of intimacy. The pregnant teen, the lesbian gay bisexual transsexual questioning intersex (LGBTQI) young adult, and the disabled student are some examples of children and youth for whom the mere expression of their sexuality casts them as abnormal. Thus, the author examines the dominant discourses of sexuality in the school curriculum from the critical standpoint of disability studies. Research Design Analytic essay. Data Collection and Analysis The author demonstrates how discourses of sexuality rely on the ideology of the “normate” to segregate, to exclude, and to dehumanize those sexual subjects who disregard the rules of normativity. Conclusions/Recommendations Transformative possibilities in “coming out crip” for inclusive education are discussed. To prevent Constance McMillen from bringing a female date to her prom, the teen was sent to a “fake prom” while the rest of her class partied at a secret location at an event organized by parents.

PREGNANT TEEN-AGERS ARE OUTCASTS NO LONGER

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-659
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Role Models ◽  
School Activities ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Pregnant Teen

In the "old days" of the 1960's, 50's and 40's, pregnant teen-agers were pariahs, banished from schools, ostracized by their peers or scurried out of town to give birth in secret. Today, pregnant teen-agers are even beginning to be viewed by some of their peers as role models. No longer are they shunned or ridiculed, but supported and embraced in their decisions to give birth, keep their babies, continue their educations and participate in school activities. Some adults, however, including many who in their youth considered the treatment of pregnant girls detestable, are never-the-less shocked by these attitudes. When I was in high school, girls got pregnant and they disappeared," said Richard Schuldt of Eau Clair, Wis. "Now, my pregnant daughter goes on ‘The Montel Williams Show.’ " Mr. Schuldt's daughter April was elected homecoming queen at her high school last year when she was five months pregnant.

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