- Title
- Economic security and the social science literature on teenage pregnancy in South Africa
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date Issued
- 2002
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6253
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007871
- Description
- Feminists have argued that the association made between teenage childbearing and long-term lower socioeconomic status hides a multitude of socially constructed inequalities. I extend this position by analysing how the association is linked in the South African literature on teenage pregnancy to economic security. I utilise Foucault’s conceptualization of the method of security. Security refers to institutions and practices that defend and maintain a national population as well as secure the economic, demographic, and social processes of that population. I analyse how the traits of the method of security are deployed with regard to teenage pregnancy; how reproductive adolescents are viewed as disrupting the production of the economic self and fracturing population control, thereby threatening economic security; and how the invocation of economic security allows for the legitimation of various regulatory practices.
- Description
- Rhodes University
- Format
- 12 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2002) Economic Security and the Social Science Literature on Teenage Pregnancy in South Africa. Gender and Society, 16 (5). pp. 647-664. ISSN 1552-3977 (online); 0891-2432. Available oline: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124302236990
- Rights
- Macleod, Catriona
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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