{"id":6234,"date":"2014-02-24T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=6234"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:34:19","slug":"sexual-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2014\/02\/24\/sexual-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Pregnancy and the Making of Sexual Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Emily S. Mann, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/gas.sagepub.com\/content\/27\/5\/681\">&ldquo;Regulating Latina Youth Sexualities through Community Health Centers: Discourses and Practices of Sexual Citizenship,&rdquo; <em>Gender &#038; Society<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2013<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Community health centers provide care to over 20 million people nationwide. As they primarily serve low-income and minority populations, they are intended to be culturally sensitive, but \u00a0a recent study by Emily Mann shows otherwise. In her findings, these centers often promote white, middle-class ideals about how to be a good \u201csexual citizen\u201d. The clinics encourage clients to be in monogamous, heterosexual, preferably married, relationships, implicitly signaling that this is the only acceptable and respectable way to be a sexual citizen. Further, these health providers push expectations of the \u201cright\u201d trajectory to adulthood; deviations from the \u201cschool, then work, then baby\u201d path are seen as negative.<\/p>\n<p>Through in-depth interviews with care providers, Mann found many centers focused on teenage pregnancy among low-income Latina youth as a social problem, concentrating on pregnancy prevention. Mann, however, argues the \u201cabstinence until after school, work, and marriage\u201d agenda severely limits sexual education. Latina women are getting the abstinence message, but missing out on vital information about safe sex, reproduction, and alternative sexualities. Providers also seem to ignore the limitations to work and education in their clients\u2019 communities; the \u201cnormal\u201d path to adulthood may not be accessible for these patients.<\/p>\n<p>By framing the sexual and reproductive practices of Latina youth as deviant and problematic, Mann argues that community health providers are unintentionally questioning the legitimacy of girls\u2019 sexual citizenship. What health providers think their clients need and what their clients actually need simply do not fit. When doctors and nurse practitioners serve as ambassadors, how can they simultaneously treat their patients, interrupt social inequality with increased education, <i>and<\/i> create culturally respectful clinic environments? The sexual citizenship test is harder than we thought.<br \/>\n<!-- TSP testing --> <ins><\/ins>\/\/ <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2638\" alt=\"Picture 2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2014\/03\/Picture-2-330x38.png\" width=\"330\" height=\"38\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily S. Mann, &ldquo;Regulating Latina Youth Sexualities through Community Health Centers: Discourses and Practices of Sexual Citizenship,&rdquo; Gender &#038; Society, 2013 Community health centers provide care to over 20 million people nationwide. As they primarily serve low-income and minority populations, they are intended to be culturally sensitive, but \u00a0a recent study by Emily Mann shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,33,85],"tags":[60,73,14907,403,34,37335,37334,1139,27077,4071,19406,1948,176,19084],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-health","category-politics","tag-adolescence","tag-citizenship","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-deviance","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-informal-social-control","tag-public-health","tag-ses","tag-sexual-health","tag-sexuality","tag-social-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8291,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}