- Title
- ‘Adolescent’ sexual and reproductive health: Controversies, rights, and justice
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434348
- Identifier
- vital:73050
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-319-40741-8
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40743-2_9
- Description
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field beset with a number of controversies, e.g. whether and to what kind of sexuality education young people should be exposed and whether teenagers should be able to decide on abortion without parental consent. It is within these controversies as well as local social dynamics that public SRH interventions aimed at adolescents take place. I start this chapter with an outline of the major global public health approach to adolescent SRH: the health and human rights framework. I then briefly overview some of the key issues concerning sexuality education, contraception, pregnancy, abortion, HIV, and lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) issues among adolescents, concentrating on questions surrounding taken-for-granted assumptions and health injustices. With this as a backdrop, I argue for a sexual and reproductive justice approach that draws from transnational feminism. Such an approach would focus on health injustices, analyze gendered power relations that cohere around sexuality and reproduction among adolescents, highlight the intersectionality of race, class, location, religion, ability and sexual orientation in health outcomes, and deconstruct normative frameworks and taken-for-granted assumptions.
- Format
- 12 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C.I., 2017. ‘Adolescent’ sexual and reproductive health: Controversies, rights, and justice. International handbook on adolescent health and development: The public health response, pp.169-181
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