Description
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 regulate.
Embodying the Problem also explores how young mothers face up to this narrative. Analyzing fifty narratives written by young mothers, the latest #NoTeenShame social media campaign, and her interviews with thirty-three young women, Vinson argues that even as 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 protected an audience for their own messages.
More information on the writer’s website (https://jennavinson.com)