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The mainstream literature on teenage pregnancy highlights teenagers' inadequate mothering as an area of disquiet. `Revisionists', such as feminist critics, point out that a confluence of negative social factors is implicated in teenagers' mothering abilities. Whether arguing that teenagers make bad mothers or defending them against this, the literature relies on the `invention of "good" mothering'. In this article I highlight the taken-for-granted assumptions concerning mothering (mothering as an essentialized dyad; mothering as a skill; motherhood as a pathway to adulthood; fathering as the absent trace) appearing in the scientific literature on teenage pregnancy in South Africa. I indicate how these assumptions are implicated in the regulation of mothering through the positioning of the teenage mother as the pathologized other, the splitting of the public from the private, domestic space of mothering, and the legitimation of the professionalization of mothering. I explore the gendered implications of the representations of mothering in this literature.

Researchers who have attempted to make sense of silence in data have generally considered literal silences or such things as laughter. We consider the analysis of veiled silences where participants speak, but their speaking serves as 'noise' that 'veils', or masks, their inability or unwillingness to talk about a (potentially sensitive) topic. Extending Lisa Mazzei's 'problematic of silence' by using our performativity–performance analytical method, we propose the purposeful use of 'unusual conversational moves', the deployment of researcher reflexivity and the analysis of trouble and repair as methods to expose taken-for-granted normative frameworks in veiled silences. We illustrate the potential of these research practices through reference to our study on men's involvement in reproductive decision-making, in which participants demonstrated an inability to engage with the topic. The veiled silence that this produced, together with what was said, pointed to the operation of procreative heteronormativity.

This article explores how lesbian identity construction is facilitated and constrained by the raced, classed, gendered, familial, and geographical spaces that women occupy. We present a narrative-discursive analysis of eight lesbians' stories of sexuality, told within a historically white university in South Africa. Three interpretative repertoires that emerged in the narratives are discussed. The 'disallowance of lesbian identity in particular racialised and class-based spaces' repertoire, deployed by black lesbians only, was used to account for their de-emphasis of a lesbian identity through the invocation of a threat of danger and stereotyping. The 'disjuncture of the (heterosexual) family and lesbian identity' repertoire emphasised how the expectation of support and care within a family does not necessarily extend to acceptance of a lesbian identity. This repertoire was used to justify emphasis on familial rather than lesbian identity and how participants managed their emotions in relation to the family and timing their disclosure to relatives. The 'expectation of routinisation of homosexuality within a liberal university' repertoire emphasised the support and acceptance of lesbian identity within the university in which the study was conducted, while simultaneously rendering heteronormative policies and heterosexism visible.

Despite progressive legislation, abortion service implementation and access in South Africa's rural areas is challenging and directly affects low-income communities. This book urges an intervention for safe and accessible abortion services that does not compromise costs or confidentiality within a reparative reproductive justice framework.

Intro -- Efficacité/Efficacy: How To Do Things With Words and Images? -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RÉSUMÉS -- EFFICACITÉ DES MOTS ET IMAGES PRÉMODERNES -- L'image "Bible des pauvres", du postulat grégorien au mythe romantique, l'efficacité d'un argument fondateur -- La production d'un sens nouveau: images et rubriques face au texte dramatique dans les manuscrits médiévaux -- (In)efficacy of Words and Images in Sixteenth-Century Franciscan Missions in Mesoamerica: Semiotic Features and Cultural Consequences -- Versailles and Its Others: Efficacy and the Arts in the Absolutist Agenda -- Royal Inefficacy: Pastoral Subversions in the Scenes of Versailles -- EFFICACITÉ DES MOTS ET IMAGES EN LITTÉRATURE -- L'impact de la représentation iconique dans l'économie de l'écriture autobiographique de Stendhal -- Après Mallarmé: l'héritage du Coup de dés dans l'avant-garde poétique française des années dix -- Ekphrasis in the Presence of the Image: Inger Christensen on Painting and Jørgen Leth on Film -- Showing/Telling: The Social and Medial Context of a Malleable Notion -- EFFICACITÉ ET ESPACE -- L'intensification du lieu: la puissance expressive de la saturation ornementale -- Efficacités de la caricature: Georges Bigot et le salon des beaux-arts à l'Exposition intérieure de Kyoto en 1895 -- Absence/Presence: The Efficacy of Text, Image, and Space at the 1937 Exposition internationale -- L'oeuvre comme dispositif réflexif dans l'art d'Alfredo Jaar, de 1979 à 1986 -- DANGEREUSE ÉFFICACITÉ -- La censure dans l'image-des images de la censure: l'Index des livres interdits -- De l'efficacité des images érotiques à l'efficience érotique des oeuvres -- Érotique de l'effondrement scénique: efficacité sadienne de l'image -- Improper Appearances: Censorship and the Carriage Scene in Madame Bovary.