Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Media
- Family
- Education
- 26 The Fertile, Thorny, and Enduring Role of Desire and Pleasure in Sexuality Education
- 27 Norm-Critical Sex Education in Sweden
- 28 Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention
- Index
- References
28 - Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention
Alternative Imaginings of Sexual Futures
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Media
- Family
- Education
- 26 The Fertile, Thorny, and Enduring Role of Desire and Pleasure in Sexuality Education
- 27 Norm-Critical Sex Education in Sweden
- 28 Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter takes up the notion of temporality in its focus on sexuality education and "chromonormative" understandings of teen pregnancy and parenting. The authors argue that, for the most part, sex education is bound by a chromonormative view of sexuality and reproduction; that is, one that ascribes certain attitudes and behaviors about reproduction to particular age groups. The authors are specifically interested in the problematization of teenage parenthood. They analyze a teen-parenthood prevention program and theorize about the ways that programs such as these might be used not just for prophylaxis, but to shift and rupture the ways that we understand young peoples' sexual and reproductive futures
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual DevelopmentChildhood and Adolescence, pp. 559 - 574Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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