5. “It was just like a piece of gum”: Using an Intersectional Approach to Understand Criminalizing Young Women of Color With Disabilities in the School-to-Prison Pipeline

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline

Social Support, Well-Being, and Risk Behaviors in Young Women of Color

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. Whitt ◽  
Stephanie L. Donnelly ◽  
Greer Findura ◽  
Guerda Nicolas
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Well Being

Towards Self-Recovery: Cultivating Love with Young Women of Color Through Pedagogies of Bodymindspirit

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Cariaga
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color

Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranita Ray
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teen Mothers ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Teen Motherhood ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Marginalized Women ◽  
Risk Discourse

Abstract Racialized and classed “risk” narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers’ agency in navigating dominant risk narratives. Fewer studies analyze how young women who are not pregnant or parenting produce, reproduce, and challenge dominant risk narratives about their sexuality. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork among 13 young economically marginalized black and Latina women, I demonstrate how feminist ideologies of empowerment interact with pervasive risk narratives in the everyday lives of marginalized women coming of age in the “shadow of the women’s movement.” My observations show that the young women strategically navigate circulating risk narratives about their sexuality by constructing an identity of distance characterized by feminist ideals of independence, self-respect, and self-development to distance themselves from these narratives. However, as they construct this identity of distance, they also stigmatize young mothers and police their own bodies and the bodies of their friends and sisters. I draw on women-of-color feminism to reflect on the uncomfortable relationship—evident in the process of a group of young women’s identity construction—between feminist ideologies of empowerment and bourgeois heteronormativity that marginalizes young women’s sexualities by constructing teen motherhood as inherently problematic.

Breast Health Information: Messages That Appeal to Young Women and Older Women of Color

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Simonian ◽  
Susan Brown ◽  
Donna Bell Sanders ◽  
Cheryl Kidd ◽  
Veronica Estrella Murillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Breast Health

“No, But I’m Still Black”

2018 ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Ralina L. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Strategies For Success

Chapter 4 begins part two of the book, which analyzes the words of Black women who are behind and speaking back to their screens, and postulates about what happens when postracial resistance and strategic ambiguity are not available as strategies for success. Chapter 4 focuses on how the young women constructed their community through identifying against strategic ambiguity. This chapter begins by defining the contours of this women-of-color, feminist audience study. Joseph introduces the members of the study to the readers, and takes them through some of their critiques including how they identify against televisual images, how they refute tokenism, and how they enact racialized resistance by “hate-watching.”

The Invention of “Welfare” in America

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Katz ◽  
Lorrin R. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Code Word ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Benefits ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Political Left

In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon referred to Aid to Families with Dependent Children as “the program we all normally think of when we think of ‘welfare.’” When President Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it” in the early 1990s, everyone knew that he meant AFDC. “Welfare” had become a code word for public assistance given mainly to unmarried mothers, mostly young women of color. Few terms evoked as much hostility among Americans as “welfare.” No other public benefits carried its stigma. The political left, right, and center all attacked it.

“A Kotex and a Smile”

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1325-1347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Lee
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Maternal Support ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Negative Memories ◽  
New Millennium

This article explores the menarche or first-period narratives of 155 young women, focusing on their relationships with their mothers at this time. It finds that maternal scripts are changing as young women of this cohort, most of whom started their periods around the new millennium, recalled supportive mothers who were emotionally engaged with them. Although such support is related to positive experiences of menarche, it is not a guarantee, as substantial numbers of women with warm maternal support recalled negative memories of menarche. Still, this study suggests that emotionally connected mothers are able to mitigate feelings of shame and humiliation associated with the discourses of menstruation in contemporary culture. Finally, although White women and the more affluent are overrepresented among celebratory and emotionally connected mothers, women of color and, to some extent, the less affluent are overrepresented among the helpful, less demonstrative mothers. The latter seem to facilitate the least negative menarcheal responses on the part of daughters.

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