Racializing teenage pregnancy : ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’ in the South African scientific literature

The signifiers, ‘race’, ‘culture’ or ‘ethnicity’ are utilized in the teenage pregnancy literature (1) to highlight ‘differences’ in adolescent sexual and reproductive behaviour and (2) as explanatory tools. When ‘white’ teenagers are the focus of research, psychological explanations are usually invo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Macleod, Catriona, Durrheim, Kevin
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2002
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007878