Abstract
In this chapter Alldred and Fox explore teenage pregnancy, sexualities education and sexual citizenship using a new materialist toolkit of assemblages, affects and micropolitics. They use data from two studies to study the impact of different sexualities-education assemblages (constituted around teachers, school nurses and youth workers) upon the sexual and non-sexual capacities produced in young people. These capacities – for instance, a capacity to assert rights to express specific sexual desires or a capacity to manage fertility proactively – contribute inter alia to young people’s (sexual) ‘citizen-ing’. Alldred and Fox conclude by assessing the wider implications of these assemblages for sexual citizenship – in the context of the continuing emphasis upon educational approaches to address issues of non-normative sexualities including teenage pregnancy and parenting, and the opportunities for an alternative nomadic citizenship of becoming and lines of flight.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager |
| Subtitle of host publication | Narratives from the Field(s) |
| Editors | Annelies Kamp, Majella McSharry |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Peter Lang Ltd |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pages | 219-242 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787075146 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781787071803 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |