Rethinking ‘Risk’ in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy: the Value of the Reproductive Justice Framework

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dc.citation.issue4
dc.citation.volume16
dc.contributor.authorMorison T
dc.contributor.authorHerbert S
dc.date.available2019-12
dc.date.issued2019-12
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dc.descriptionPre-print version
dc.description.abstractUsing the case of Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy in Aotearoa (New Zealand), this article interrogates the dominant risk discourse in sexual and reproductive health policy. It highlights the tensions between risk discourse and broader equity goals, which are increasingly seen as significant within sexual and reproductive health. Working within a poststructuralist perspective,discursive methodology is used to explore the positioning of youth in ten (10) policy documents. The analysis shows how the risk discourse, along with a developmental discourse, creates three common youth subject positions: youth as at risk and vulnerable, as not-yet citizens, and as especially vulnerable relative to other young people. It demonstrates how these positions may be associated with ‘new’ or covert forms of morality and stigmatisation. Detailing the implications for ethnic minorities in particular, it adds to prior analyses of gender- and class-based inequities. The Sexual and Reproductive Justice framework, which encompasses notions of rights and justice, is discussed as an alternative to risk-based policy development that can attend to sexual and reproductive health inequities.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent434 - 445
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dc.identifier.citationSEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY, 2019, 16 (4), pp. 434 - 445
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13178-018-0351-z
dc.identifier.eissn1553-6610
dc.identifier.elements-id413450
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1868-9884
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/16736
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
dc.relation.isPartOfSEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY
dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/17835
dc.relation.replaces123456789/17835
dc.subjectRisk
dc.subjectSexual and reproductive health policy
dc.subjectYouth
dc.subjectSocial inequities
dc.subjectSexual and reproductive justice
dc.subject.anzsrc1117 Public Health and Health Services
dc.subject.anzsrc1303 Specialist Studies in Education
dc.subject.anzsrc1605 Policy and Administration
dc.titleRethinking ‘Risk’ in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy: the Value of the Reproductive Justice Framework
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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