Embodying the Problem : The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother / Jenna Vinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinson, Jenna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage mothers--United States.

Teenage mothers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The dominant narrative of teen pregnancy persuades many people to believe that a teenage pregnancy always leads to devastating consequences for a young woman, her child, and the nation in which they reside. Jenna Vinson draws on feminist and rhetorical theory to explore how pregnant and mothering teens are represented as problems in U.S. newspapers, political discourses, and teenage pregnancy prevention campaigns since the 1970s. Vinson shows that these representations prevent a focus on the underlying structures of inequality and poverty, perpetuate harmful discourses about women, and sustain racialized gender ideologies that construct women's bodies as sites of national intervention and control. Embodying the Problem also explores how young mothers resist this narrative. Analyzing fifty narratives written by young mothers, the recent #NoTeenShame social media campaign, and her interviews with thirty-three young women, Vinson argues that while the stigmatization of teenage pregnancy and motherhood does dehumanize young pregnant and mothering women, it is at the same time a means for these women to secure an audience for their own messages. More information on the author's website (https://jennavinson.com)

Contents:

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 #NoTeenShame

Appendix B

Appendix C

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780813591049

081359104X

9780813591025

0813591023

OCLC:

1017609183