Jenna Vinson

Embodying the Problem

The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Embodying the Problem shows that the dominant narrative regarding teenage pregnancy perpetuates harmful discourses about women and sustains racialized gender ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites of national intervention and control. However, many women who embody the “problem” of teenage pregnancy actively resist this narrative by publishing their own stories.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 176mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780813591001
• ISBN-10: 0813591007
• Artikelnr.: 48956696

Autorenporträt

JENNA VINSON is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Embodying the Problem
1. The Role of the Teen Mother in Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy
2. Seeing Is Believing: How Visual Representations of Women Established the
Problem of Teenage Pregnancy
3. Challenging Experts, Commonplaces, and Statistics: Teen Mothers’
Counter-narratives
4. Resisting Stigmatizing Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives: The
#NoTeenShame Campaign
5. Confronting the Stranger on the Street: Embodied Exigence in Everyday
Rhetorical Situations
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Bibliography
Index