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Please join us Thursday, April 3rd, 12:30pm, for Jenna Vinson's presentation “Re-Producing Pathologies: The Problems with the Stories We Tell about Teen Moms in Pregnancy Prevention Campaigns.” 

Seminar will be held at 135 East 22nd Street, Room 301.

Jenna Vinson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She earned a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Dr. Vinson specializes in feminist rhetorical studies. She is currently researching contemporary representations of teenage pregnancy that produce and sustain limiting understands of women. Her work also identifies and investigates the persuasive strategies some young mothering women use to resist these representations. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Feminist Formations, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and most recently Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, and Learning. She has written chapters for edited collections including Motherhood Online and the 21st Century Motherhood Movement. Dr. Vinson also serves as a funded scholar with the Crossroads Collaborative, a research initiative funded by the Ford Foundation to study and support youth, sexuality, health, and rights in Arizona. 
 
This presentation considers the rhetorical force and function of the dominant narrative of teenage pregnancy—that is, the popular depiction of young motherhood as the tragic downfall of a woman’s life. Dr. Vinson’s research highlights the ways in which such narratives work to (re)produce gendered ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites for national intervention and control. Dr. Vinson will focus on the limited and limiting representations of pregnant and mothering teens in pregnancy prevention campaigns and news media as well as on the rhetorical strategies that researchers and young pregnant and mothering women have used to challenge such pathologizing representations of young mothers. Her work illuminates how dominant narratives function to prevent fuller considerations of structures of inequality and the logics that sustain them. 


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