Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century) (Volume 3)

Barcelos, Chris

ISBN 10: 0520306716 / ISBN 13: 9780520306714

Verlag: University of California Press, 2020

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780520306714_new

Inhaltsangabe:

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.
 

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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Distributing Condoms and Hope: The ...
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New