Psychological & Medical Anthropology, Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California San Diego , La Jolla, CA, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2020 Aug-Sep;39(6):506-520. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1711755. Epub 2020 Feb 13.
Critical appraisals of adolescent pregnancy invoke the neoliberal valuation of rational action as moral obligation. Adolescents are portrayed as autonomous modern subjects and expected to demonstrate the virtue of responsibility through the use of biomedical contraceptives. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork focusing on adolescent pregnancy in a small, semirural community outside of Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico, I elucidate the moral landscape within which assertions of intentionality might acquire meaning in the context of adolescent pregnancy. I argue that the stakes involved in normative evaluations of female sexuality and reproduction at my fieldsite are shaped by past and contemporary experiences of EuroAmerican imperialism and are superimposed upon moral scaffolds laid by EuroAmerican colonialism.
对青少年怀孕的批判性评估援引了新自由主义对理性行为的价值观，将其视为道德义务。青少年被描绘为自主的现代主体，期望通过使用生物医学避孕措施来展示责任的美德。本研究通过在墨西哥下加利福尼亚州北部提华纳郊外的一个小型半农村社区进行为期 16 个月的人种学实地调查，重点研究青少年怀孕问题，阐明了在青少年怀孕的背景下，意图主张可能获得意义的道德领域。我认为，在我的研究地点，对女性性行为和生殖的规范性评估所涉及的利害关系受到欧洲-美国帝国主义过去和当代经验的影响，并叠加在欧洲-美国殖民主义所奠定的道德框架之上。
