Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention: Alternative Imaginings of Sexual Futures

Mary Lou Rasmussen; Aoife Neary

doi:10.1017/9781108116121.029

Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention: Alternative Imaginings of Sexual Futures

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
Subtitle of host publication	Childhood and Adolescence
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	559-574
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108116121
ISBN (Print)	9781107190719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108116121.029
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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