Sexual and Reproductive Justice

Tracy Morison; Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso

doi:10.5771/9781793644213

Summary

Sexual and Reproductive Justice: From the Margins to the Centre offers new insights and perspectives on sexual and reproductive justice. The thought-provoking and diverse contributions in this volume — which range from indigenous approaches to sexual violence to gender-affirming primary and mental healthcare — extend sexual and reproductive justice scholarship, and spark critical questions, novel thinking, and ongoing dialogue in this field.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4420-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4421-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
1. The History and Foundations of (Sexual and) Reproductive Justice No access
2. The Core Tenets of Sexual and Reproductive Justice No access
3. 1. The Right to Have Children No access
  2. The Right to Supportive Conditions for Birthing and Parenting No access
  3. The Right Not to Have Children No access
4. 1. Body Diversity: Extending Understandings of Bodily Oppression No access
  2. Widening the lens to Sexual and Reproductive Justice No access
  3. A Note on Terminology No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Note No access
7. References No access
1. Our Study No access
2. 1. 1. Rejection, Abuse, and Abandonment in Primary Families and Communities No access
    2. Criminalisation as a Form of Systemic Violence No access
  2. 1. Contraceptive Services: Constrained Agency and Coercive Practices No access
    2. Abortion No access
  3. Theme 3: Mental Health Challenges Resulting from Injustice No access
3. Concluding Discussion No access
4. Acknowledgement No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. The Impact of Colonialism in Shaping Social Contexts of Sexual Violence No access
2. Māori Specialist Sexual Violence Services and Community Engagement No access
3. Māori Sexual and Reproductive Justice No access
4. Methods No access
5. 1. Curtailing Māori Community Agency in Responding to Sexual Violence No access
  2. Māori Innovators and Experts Overlooked No access
  3. Māori Ingenuity Disconnected from Originating People and Place through Cultural Appropriation No access
6. Discussion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. 1. Defining Disability No access
2. Our Study No access
3. Findings No access
4. Concluding Discussion No access
5. References No access
1. South Africa’s Binary Health System: Transgender and Gender Diverse People’s Access to Healthcare No access
2. 1. Racial Injustice No access
  2. Class-Based Exclusions No access
  3. Gender Injustice No access
3. Denial of Access to Gender Affirming Care as a Denial of Sexual and Reproductive Justice No access
4. Glossary of Terms No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. Psychology in South Africa: A Legacy of Pathologisation and Erasure No access
2. Sexual and Gender Diverse Communities and Mental Healthcare in South Africa No access
3. Working towards an Affirmative Approach and Sexual Reproductive Justice Framework No access
4. Concluding Discussion No access
5. Note No access
6. References No access
1. The Study No access
2. 1. Theme 1: Provider Masculinity and Acceptable Masculinity No access
  2. Theme 2: Boys’ Quest to Father a First-born Child No access
3. Discussion No access
4. Note No access
5. References No access
1. Waging War on “Maternal Obesity” No access
2. The Study No access
3. 1. A Discursive Context of Intensified Fat Phobia No access
4. “I Was Trying to be Really Healthy”: The Work of Pre-emptive Biopolitics No access
5. “I’d Just Given Up”: Constrained Agency No access
6. Talking Back: In Search of Fat Reproductive Justice No access
7. Note No access
8. References No access
1. Obstetric Violence in South Africa No access
2. Materiality of Care No access
3. 1. Neglect as a Norm in the MOU No access
  2. Working with Constant Uncertainty No access
  3. The Limitations and Possibilities for Realising Compassionate Care No access
4. Concluding Comments No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. Neoliberal Motherhood No access
2. Reproductive Justice and Parenting No access
3. The Problematising of Poor Parents in British Social Policy No access
4. The Present Study No access
5. 1. Middle-Class Women’s Perspectives on Raising Children No access
  2. Working-Class Women’s Perspectives on Raising Children No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Dominant Discourses of Teen Sex and Parenthood in South Africa No access
2. Coloured Identities and Respectable Womanhood No access
3. Methodology No access
4. 1. Theme 1: Negotiating Choice(s) No access
  2. Theme 2: Silencing the Shame No access
  3. Theme 3: Becoming Worthy Mothers No access
5. Concluding Discussion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Disciplining Young People’s Sexuality No access
2. Policing of Gender Norms, Heteronormativity, and Pro-Family Discourse No access
3. Adult Regulation of Young Sexualities No access
4. Concluding Thoughts No access
5. Note No access
6. References No access
1. A Brief History of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender in the Pacific No access
2. Legal Terminology and Relevant Statutes No access
3. Our Study No access
4. 1. Secret Pregnancies, Unattended Births, and Ambiguous Deaths: Failure to Conform to Medical Standards No access
  2. Corruption of the Maternal Ideal No access
5. A “Good Mother” Who Acted “Out of Character”: Attempts to Reconcile Feminine Identity No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. 1. Background of Contraceptive Care in the Two Countries No access
2. Our Study No access
3. Decision-Making Scripts and Contraceptive Agency No access
4. 1. Passive Contraceptive Agency No access
  2. Muted Contraceptive Agency No access
  3. Covert Resistance No access
  4. Patient-Led Decision-Making Script No access
  5. Collaborative Decision-Making Script No access
5. Concluding Discussion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Abortion in South Africa No access
2. Our Study No access
3. 1. 1. Awfulisation of Abortion No access
    2. Foetal Personhood Discourse Paired with Motherhood–womanhood Discourse No access
    3. Religious Discourse No access
  2. 1. “I Was Ready to Say I’m Cancelling/I Have Doubts” No access
    2. “I Was So Hurt” No access
    3. “It Was Hard, but I Don’t Have a Choice” No access
4. Concluding Discussion No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. In/Exclusions in Sexual and Reproductive Justice Scholarship and Movements No access
2. 1. Sexual Justice No access
  2. Connections between Sexual and Reproductive In/Justice No access
3. Sexual and Reproductive Justice for Young People No access
4. The Right to Supportive Conditions for Birthing and Parenting No access
5. Reproductive Decision-Making and the Right Not to Have a Child No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. References No access
Index No access Pages 281 - 288
1. About the Editors No access
2. About the Contributors No access