Department of Anthropology, Brunel University, London, UK.
Cult Health Sex. 2010 Apr;12(3):323-34. doi: 10.1080/13691050903342196.
Most literature concerning unintended pregnancy in Brazil highlights a link between 'adolescent pregnancy', poverty, marginality and gender inequality. Young women are seen to suffer disadvantages in the course of their lives due to unplanned pregnancies at an early age. This paper questions this picture, emphasising the ways in which adolescent pregnancy is socially constructed and wrongly portrayed as being the main difficulty facing young women in marginalised communities. Instead, it suggests that anthropological and public health debates should focus on how terms such as adolescence and pregnancy are understood and defined by the populations in question.
大多数关于巴西意外怀孕的文献都强调了“少女怀孕”、贫困、边缘化和性别不平等之间的联系。人们认为，年轻女性由于年轻时意外怀孕，在其一生中会处于不利地位。本文对这种观点提出质疑，强调了少女怀孕是如何被社会构建的，并被错误地描绘成边缘化社区中年轻女性面临的主要困难。相反，它认为，人类学和公共卫生方面的辩论应该集中在如何理解和定义青春期和怀孕等术语，以及这些术语是如何被有关人群所理解和定义的。
