Main description:

Sexual 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.

Contents:

Introduction: 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 Maori 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