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abstinence-only policy effects
advocacy and teen sex education
American politics and reproduction
and surveillance
Author_Clare Daniel
blaming teen pregnancy
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Clinton welfare reform
controlling teen bodies
critical reproductive studies
critical welfare studies
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federal discourse on teen sex
feminist political critique
history of U.S. teen pregnancy policy
individual responsibility narrative
intersectional policy analysis
intersectional reproductive politics
media framing of teen pregnancy
media moral panic
media stereotypes of teen mothers
MTV's 16 and Pregnant
narratives of teen sex
policy myths about teen moms
politics of teen pregnancy
poverty and teen motherhood
public shaming of young mothers
race and teen pregnancy
racial politics of reproduction
racialized teen motherhood
reading on reproductive justice
reality TV and teen moms
representation of teen moms
reproductive governance U.S.
reproductive politics
reproductive rights and teen pregnancy
sex
sex education and politics
sociology of teen pregnancy
structural racism and reproductive policy
TANF
teen health
teen pregnancy 1970s 1980s
teen pregnancy and cultural shame
teen pregnancy and race
teen pregnancy and systemic inequality
teen pregnancy and welfare policy
teen pregnancy as political scapegoat
teen pregnancy in America
teen pregnancy in national discourse
teen pregnancy in pop culture
teen pregnancy public policy
teen pregnancy Reagan era
teen sexuality in public discourse
U.S. welfare reform
women's studies teen pregnancy
youth
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- ISBN 9781625342676
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The approach the United States has taken to addressing teen pregnancy— a ubiquitous concern in teen education and perennial topic in popular culture— has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Specifically since the radical overhaul of welfare policy in 1996, Clare Daniel argues, teen pregnancy, previously regarded as a social problem requiring public solutions, is seen as an individual failure on the part of the teens involved. Daniel investigates coordinated teen pregnancy pre- vention efforts within federal political discourse, along with public policy, popular culture, national advocacy, and local initiatives, revealing the evidence of this transformation. In the 1970s and 1980s, political leaders from both parties used teen pregnancy to strengthen their attacks on racialized impoverished communities. With a new welfare policy in 1996 that rhetoric moved toward blaming teen pregnancy— seemingly in a race- and class- neutral way— on the teens who engaged in sex prematurely and irresponsibly. Daniel effectively illustrates that the construction of teen pregnancy as an individual’s problem has been a key component in a neoliberal agenda that frees the government from the responsibility of addressing systemic problems of poverty, lack of access to education, ongoing structural racism, and more.
Clare Daniel is assistant director of academic advising and adjunct lecturer in the Honors Program at Tulane University.
