| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) |
| Series |
Women and Psychology |
| Contents |
1 Setting the Scene; 2 Adolescence as Transition?; 3 Conundrums: Sex Education, 'teenage Pregnancy', and Decision-making in the Context of Abortion; 4 Constructing a Threat of Degeneration: the Invention of and Research Practices concerning the 'social Problem' of 'teenage Pregnancy'; 5 Young Women and Legalized Abortion: the New 'social Problem'; 6 Othering: Race, Culture and 'teenage Pregnancy'/abortion; 7 Managing the Threat of Degeneration; 8 from 'teenage Pregnancy' to Unwanted Pregnancy; References; Index |
| Summary |
Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book outlines a critical view of 'teenage pregnancy' and abortion, arguing that the negativity surrounding early reproduction is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex instruction for teenagers.
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Teenage pregnancy.
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Abortion.
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Abortion
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Sex instruction for teenagers
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Teenage pregnancy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203844908 |
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0203844904 |
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