Teen Pregnancy And Sexuality

What links this group isn't tone but a fixation on pregnancy and the body as sites of institutional and interpersonal power struggle. Again and again, a girl or woman's reproductive body becomes the terrain where systems—medical, familial, legal, marital—exert control or fail to protect: the clinic bureaucracy of Never Rarely Sometimes Always, the gaslighting doctors of Absence, the church's cruelty in Philomena, the wrongful accusation in Belén. Even the horror and satire entries (Bed Rest, Body Melt) and the teen comedies (Blockers, Summer '03, American Pie) circle the same nerve: pregnancy and adolescent sexuality as moments when a person's autonomy is suddenly, urgently contested by the people and institutions around them.

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