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Book SynopsisSexual 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 care in primary and mental health, extend sexual and reproductive justice scholarship, illuminating systems of power that produce sexual and reproductive oppression and sparking critical questions, novel thinking, and ongoing dialogue in this field.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversifying Reproductive Justice Scholarship: Marginalised Voices and Overlooked Issues
Tracy Morison & Jabulile M. J. Mavuso
Chapter 1: Sex Worker Narratives in Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Justice in South Africa
Marion Stevens, Dudu Dlamini, & Lance Louskieter
Chapter 2: Indigenous Sexual and Reproductive Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand: Mitigating Ongoing Colonial Harm in the Revitalisation of Māori Sexual Violence Prevention Knowledge, Expertise, and Practice
Jade Le Grice, Cheryl Turner, Linda Waimarie Nikora, & Nicola Gavey
Chapter 3: Sexual and Reproductive Justice for Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: A Qualitative Study with Residential Facility Care Workers
Busisiwe Nkala-Dlamini & Sanele Twala
Chapter 4: Sexual Injustice: (In)access to Gender Affirming Medical Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse South Africans
Landa Mabenge
Chapter 5: Paving the Way to Gender Affirming Mental Health Services Using a Sexual and Reproductive Justice Approach: A South African Case Study
Aneeqa Abrahams
Chapter 6: The Quest for a First-Born: Boys’ Reproductive Desires and the Un/intentionality of Teenage Pregnancy
Busisiwe Nkala-Dlamini & Thobeka Nkomo
Chapter 7: Weighing In: Reimagining Fat Reproductive Embodiment through the Lens of Sexual and Reproductive Justice
George Parker
Chapter 8: The Possibilities and Limitations of Midwives Practicing Compassionate Care in Maternity Care
Jessica Dutton & Lucia Knight
Chapter 9: Doing the Work of the State? Class Inequalities and Motherhood in Neoliberal Times
Kristina Saunders
Chapter 10: Vroeg Ryp, Vroeg Vrot/Early to Ripen, Early to Rot: Stigma and Young Coloured Women’s Negotiation of Heterosex and Motherhood
Andrea Alexander
Chapter 11: Sexuality Education for Sexual and Reproductive Justice? Deconstructing the Dominant Response to Young People’s Sexualities in Contemporary Schooling Contexts in South Africa
Sisa Ngabaza & Tamara Shefer
Chapter 12: Infanticide and Reproductive (In)Justice in the South Pacific: The Construction of Pacific Women in Criminal Trials
Kate Burry, Kristen Beek, Bridget Haire, & Heather Worth
Chapter 13: The Contraceptive Paradox, Contraceptive Agency, and Reproductive Justice: Women’s Decision-making about Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
Tracy Morison, Yanela Ndabula, & Catriona I. Macleod
Chapter 14: Directive Counselling Undermines “Safe” Abortion: A Critical Discursive Psychology Approach to Reproductive Justice
Jabulile M. J. Mavuso, Catriona I. Macleod & Ryan du Toit
Conclusion
Jabulile M. J. Mavuso & Tracy Morison
