- Title
- Young pregnant women and public health
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I, Feltham-King, Tracey
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298572
- Identifier
- vital:57717
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2019.1573313"
- Description
- In this paper, we outline a critical reparative justice/care approach to adolescent reproductive health as an alternative to the standard public health response to ‘teenage pregnancy’. Joining an increasing body of critical scholarship that calls for nuance in understanding reproduction amongst young people, we draw, in this paper, on data generated from an ethnographic study conducted in antenatal care units in an Eastern Cape township in South Africa. To illustrate the approach we propose, we home in on five case studies that highlight the variability of young women’s lives, the multiple injustices they experience, and the agency they demonstrate in negotiating their way through pregnancy and birth. Injustices evident in these cases centre on sexual violence, rape myths, education system failures, health system failures, shaming and stigmatising practices, socio-economic precariousness, absent male partners, and denial of services. We outline how the reparative justice approach that highlights repair and support for social and health injustices at the individual and collective level as well as at the material and symbolic level may be taken up to ensure reproductive justice for young pregnant women.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (11 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Public Health, Macleod, C.I. and Feltham-King, T., 2020. Young pregnant women and public health: introducing a critical reparative justice/care approach using South African case studies. Critical Public Health, 30(3), pp.319-329, Critical Public Health volume 30 number 3 p. 319 2001 1469-3682
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- Rights
- Open Access
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Feltham-King, Tracey (Prof)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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