Sexual and Reproductive Justice

Sexual and Reproductive Justice: From the Margins to the Centre offers new insights and perspectives to discussions on sexual and reproductive justice.

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 primary and mental healthcare — extend sexual and reproductive justice scholarship, and spark critical questions, novel thinking, and ongoing dialogue in this field.

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 Māori 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