Partial Truths: Representations of Teenage Pregnancy in Research

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Title:	Partial Truths: Representations of Teenage Pregnancy in Research
Author:	Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume:	29
Issue:	3-4
Pages:	96-104
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	pregnancy adolescents values social research Women's Issues Health and Nutrition Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Bibliography/Research research Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Demographics
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2006.11499935
Abstract:	The author identifies three schools of research - the official, the revisionist, and the feminist school - on teenage pregnancy that were dominant from the 1980s to 2003 in South Africa. By providing a comparison with some of the research in the United States and in England, the author draws attention to the similarity in the representations of teenage pregnancy in South Africa and in the latter countries. The strengths and weaknesses of each research school are discussed. The author then provides an alternative representation of teenage pregnancy substantiated by reference to her own research in the township of Khwezi East, South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]