Emily S Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily S Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6246-2441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Contraceptive autonomy of adolescents and young adults in the U.S. South: The influence of healthcare providers, partners, and parents
A growing body of research describes coercive experiences in contraceptive care in the clinic setting, a phenomenon that disproportionately constrains the contraceptive autonomy of women who are young, low-income, Black, or Latinx. Less research has examined how other social influences may constrain contraceptive use and decision-making. We examine contraceptive autonomy across three domains of interpersonal influence (healthcare providers, sexua…
If I can accept my queerness, I can accept my body as it is”: Understanding weight-related perspectives and stigma from sexual minority women
Our findings underscore the importance of applying intersectional and life-course frameworks and call for systemic changes in public health to shift from weight-centric approaches toward affirming, weight-inclusive paradigms that address interlocking systems of oppression
Parental influences on contraceptive autonomy among adolescents in the Southern USA
Research on contraceptive coercion among adolescent and young adult women in the USA focuses primarily on clinicians and male sexual partners. Less recognised is how parents may limit their daughters' autonomy to decide when and if to initiate or discontinue prescription-based contraception and to use their preferred method. This study used thematic content analysis of interviews conducted with 46 adolescent and young adult women living in the so…
They don't have to make room for me because this is their space: Black College Students' Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health
Black students who attend PWIs are tasked with navigating campus environments where Whiteness - i.e., social norms, policies, and practices that uphold White supremacy - has an enduring and pervasive presence. While a growing body of research has become attuned to how Whiteness shapes higher education, less work has centered the experiential knowledge of Black students and their health outcomes. This study uses select tenets from critical race th…
U.S. college students’ perspectives on contraception and abortion post-Dobbs: The influence of socioeconomic privilege and gender inequity
This study examined college students’ perspectives about contraception and abortion in the context of the United States Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted between October 2022 and February 2023 with a convenience sample of 20 college students, ages 18–22, attending a public university in the southeastern United States. Qualitative data anal…
Exploring adolescent‐facing US clinicians' perceptions of their contraceptive counseling and use of shared decision‐making: A qualitative study
Clinicians in this study frequently engaged in non-patient-centered techniques during contraceptive counseling with adolescents. These findings can inform practice recommendations to support clinicians in providing high-quality contraceptive counseling using shared decision-making
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions
Drawing upon data from Changing Realities, an online participatory research project collected between September-October 2022 and March-April 2023, this article generates new knowledge on the lived experiences of low-income families in the UK during this turbulent political period and particularly through the (ongoing) cost-of-living crisis. Utilising the work of Wright and McIntosh, we articulate the ‘shared typical’ discernible of lived experien…
Unveiling the Human Experience of Medicaid Renewals: Using a Data-Driven and Human Centered Design Approach to Improve Public Service Delivery
This case study demonstrates how a transdisciplinary, human-centered approach to research and process improvement can increase efficiency, enrollment, and customer experience across a complex ecosystem of organizations, people, processes, and technologies. In the wake of an executive order to improve customer experience and service delivery, a team at the United States Digital Service (USDS) worked with Centers for Medicaid and the Children's Hea…
The biomedicalization of pregnancy prevention, neoliberal feminism, and college women's experiences of the contraceptive paradox
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control
The United States is experiencing a demographic transition toward older motherhood. Biomedicine classifies pregnancies among all women of advanced maternal age (AMA) as high-risk; paradoxically, women having first births at AMA are typically economically and racially privileged, which can reduce the risk of risks. This article examines the implications of the biomedicalization of AMA for first-time mothers, age 35 and older, using qualitative int…
Gender Inequality in Reproductive Health
This review highlights insights from Rene Almeling’s book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, regarding the social processes that inform cultural assumptions about the relationships between gender, bodies, health, and reproduction
The power of persuasion: Normative accountability and clinicians’ practices of contraceptive counseling
Efforts to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by expanding access to and use of a new generation of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in recent years led to the wide-spread adoption of a tiered effectiveness (i.e., LARC-first) approach to contraceptive counseling in clinical practice. While reproductive justice scholar-advocates have critiqued this approach for how it may limit pregnancy-capable people's reproductive decision-…
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction
Efficacy as safety: Dominant cultural assumptions and the assessment of contraceptive risk
Men’s Vasectomy Knowledge, Attitudes, and Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Southern United States: Results From an Exploratory Survey
Vasectomy is one of the few options men have to manage their reproductive capacity and take on a more equitable role in pregnancy prevention. While the method is underused throughout the United States, the southern states have a lower prevalence rate compared to the rest of the country. Existing survey research does not assess what men know or think about the procedure as a means of understanding why this is the case. We created and conducted an …
The age of Larc: Making Sexual Citizens on the Frontiers of Technoscientific Healthism
approach to contraceptive use. We suggest that immediate postpartum LARC insertion policies, which have proliferated in the U.S. since 2012, exemplify the new era of LARC hegemony, in which urgency, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes dominate both health policy and clinical practice around these contraceptive technologies. By following these efforts to facilitate access to and use of immediate postpartum LARC, we find a discourse on sex…
Black US college women’s strategies of sexual self-protection
While previous scholarship on the sexual practices of college students in the USA has explored how the co-constitution of whiteness, economic privilege and gender inequality are central to 'hooking up', less attention has been paid to how the sexual culture of predominantly white universities shape Black college women's sexual practices. In this article, we use an intersectional theoretical framework informed by Black feminism to analyse intervie…
LGBTQ College Students' Experiences With University Health Services: An Exploratory Study
Access to inclusive, equitable health care is central to the wellbeing of all college students yet little is known about LGBTQ students' experiences with university health services. In this article, individual interviews with a convenience sample of 14 LGBTQ students at a large public university were analyzed to explore their perceptions of and experiences with the university's health center and its services. Our findings demonstrate that the uni…
You just have to learn to keep moving on’: Young women’s experiences with unplanned pregnancy in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is one of several countries in the Pacific region that has high rates of teenage pregnancy and birth. While the social determinants of pregnancy and early motherhood are well established in the global context, little is known about how Cook Islands young women who become pregnant before age 20 make sense of their experiences. Drawing on individual interviews with a purposive sample of 10 young mothers, this paper examines the phe…
Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion
This manuscript reports the findings of a critical visual discourse analysis of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) promotion materials. The authors argue that these contemporary LARC promotion images produce a discourse they identify as 'agency-without-choice,' in which LARC devices are framed as the only responsible contraceptive option precisely because they are so empowering. The authors situate LARC promotion within its historical an…
It would have control over me instead of me having control’: Intrauterine devices and the meaning of reproductive freedom
In the past decade, enthusiasm for intrauterine devices (IUDs) has rapidly grown in the United States. Messages from health care providers, pharmaceutical advertisements, and public health campaigns extol the freedom that women can experience using a long-term, internal, highly effective contraceptive method. Little research has investigated how young women conceptualize IUDs in terms of freedom and control. We conducted a thematic analysis of in…
Sexual Scripts in Contemporary Mexican Cinema: A Quantitative Content Analysis
Latina Girls, Sexual Agency, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism
The Neoliberalism Wars, or Notes on the Persistence of Neoliberalism
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Regulating Latina Youth Sexualities through Community Health Centers: Discourses and Practices of Sexual Citizenship
This article examines the regulation of Latina youth sexualities in the context of sexual and reproductive health care provision. In-depth interviews with health care providers working in two Latino-serving community health centers are analyzed for how they interpret and respond to the sexual and reproductive practices of their low-income Latina teen patients. The author finds that providers emphasize teenage pregnancy as a social problem among t…
The Neoliberalism Wars, or Notes on the Persistence of Neoliberalism
Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion
This manuscript reports the findings of a critical visual discourse analysis of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) promotion materials. The authors argue that these contemporary LARC promotion images produce a discourse they identify as 'agency-without-choice,' in which LARC devices are framed as the only responsible contraceptive option precisely because they are so empowering. The authors situate LARC promotion within its historical an…
The age of Larc: Making Sexual Citizens on the Frontiers of Technoscientific Healthism
approach to contraceptive use. We suggest that immediate postpartum LARC insertion policies, which have proliferated in the U.S. since 2012, exemplify the new era of LARC hegemony, in which urgency, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes dominate both health policy and clinical practice around these contraceptive technologies. By following these efforts to facilitate access to and use of immediate postpartum LARC, we find a discourse on sex…
Efficacy as safety: Dominant cultural assumptions and the assessment of contraceptive risk
LGBTQ College Students' Experiences With University Health Services: An Exploratory Study
Access to inclusive, equitable health care is central to the wellbeing of all college students yet little is known about LGBTQ students' experiences with university health services. In this article, individual interviews with a convenience sample of 14 LGBTQ students at a large public university were analyzed to explore their perceptions of and experiences with the university's health center and its services. Our findings demonstrate that the uni…
Latina Girls, Sexual Agency, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control
The United States is experiencing a demographic transition toward older motherhood. Biomedicine classifies pregnancies among all women of advanced maternal age (AMA) as high-risk; paradoxically, women having first births at AMA are typically economically and racially privileged, which can reduce the risk of risks. This article examines the implications of the biomedicalization of AMA for first-time mothers, age 35 and older, using qualitative int…
The biomedicalization of pregnancy prevention, neoliberal feminism, and college women's experiences of the contraceptive paradox
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction
Sexual Scripts in Contemporary Mexican Cinema: A Quantitative Content Analysis
They don't have to make room for me because this is their space: Black College Students' Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health
Black students who attend PWIs are tasked with navigating campus environments where Whiteness - i.e., social norms, policies, and practices that uphold White supremacy - has an enduring and pervasive presence. While a growing body of research has become attuned to how Whiteness shapes higher education, less work has centered the experiential knowledge of Black students and their health outcomes. This study uses select tenets from critical race th…
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions
Drawing upon data from Changing Realities, an online participatory research project collected between September-October 2022 and March-April 2023, this article generates new knowledge on the lived experiences of low-income families in the UK during this turbulent political period and particularly through the (ongoing) cost-of-living crisis. Utilising the work of Wright and McIntosh, we articulate the ‘shared typical’ discernible of lived experien…
The New Majority: How Will Latino Youth Succeed in the Context of Low Educational Expectations and Assumptions of Sexual Irresponsibility
Regulating Latina Youth Sexualities through Community Health Centers: Discourses and Practices of Sexual Citizenship
This article examines the regulation of Latina youth sexualities in the context of sexual and reproductive health care provision. In-depth interviews with health care providers working in two Latino-serving community health centers are analyzed for how they interpret and respond to the sexual and reproductive practices of their low-income Latina teen patients. The author finds that providers emphasize teenage pregnancy as a social problem among t…
Queer youth suicide and the psychopolitics of “It Gets Better”
This article investigates a mass-mediated campaign against a perceived increase in suicides among gay (or presumed-to-be-gay) youth in the USA since September 2010. “It Gets Better” (IGB) became a rallying cry for “anti-bullying” activists, politicians, celebrities and ordinary people who created YouTube videos addressed to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth who might be considering suicide. A critical discourse analysis of a sam…
The New Majority: How Will Latino Youth Succeed in the Context of Low Educational Expectations and Assumptions of Sexual Irresponsibility
Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: Narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents
Despite the fact that the US teenage birth rate has declined dramatically in recent years, teen births among Latinas are higher than any other racial/ethnic group. Most studies focus on the causes and consequences of early motherhood among Latina teenagers, neglecting other important dimensions of the issue. This study examines how Latina/o teenage parents living in California narrate their experiences with unintended pregnancy resolution. Qualit…
Latina Girls, Sexual Agency, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism
The Neoliberalism Wars, or Notes on the Persistence of Neoliberalism
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
It would have control over me instead of me having control’: Intrauterine devices and the meaning of reproductive freedom
In the past decade, enthusiasm for intrauterine devices (IUDs) has rapidly grown in the United States. Messages from health care providers, pharmaceutical advertisements, and public health campaigns extol the freedom that women can experience using a long-term, internal, highly effective contraceptive method. Little research has investigated how young women conceptualize IUDs in terms of freedom and control. We conducted a thematic analysis of in…
Sexual Scripts in Contemporary Mexican Cinema: A Quantitative Content Analysis
You just have to learn to keep moving on’: Young women’s experiences with unplanned pregnancy in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is one of several countries in the Pacific region that has high rates of teenage pregnancy and birth. While the social determinants of pregnancy and early motherhood are well established in the global context, little is known about how Cook Islands young women who become pregnant before age 20 make sense of their experiences. Drawing on individual interviews with a purposive sample of 10 young mothers, this paper examines the phe…
Agency-Without-Choice: The Visual Rhetorics of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Promotion
This manuscript reports the findings of a critical visual discourse analysis of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) promotion materials. The authors argue that these contemporary LARC promotion images produce a discourse they identify as 'agency-without-choice,' in which LARC devices are framed as the only responsible contraceptive option precisely because they are so empowering. The authors situate LARC promotion within its historical an…
Black US college women’s strategies of sexual self-protection
While previous scholarship on the sexual practices of college students in the USA has explored how the co-constitution of whiteness, economic privilege and gender inequality are central to 'hooking up', less attention has been paid to how the sexual culture of predominantly white universities shape Black college women's sexual practices. In this article, we use an intersectional theoretical framework informed by Black feminism to analyse intervie…
LGBTQ College Students' Experiences With University Health Services: An Exploratory Study
Access to inclusive, equitable health care is central to the wellbeing of all college students yet little is known about LGBTQ students' experiences with university health services. In this article, individual interviews with a convenience sample of 14 LGBTQ students at a large public university were analyzed to explore their perceptions of and experiences with the university's health center and its services. Our findings demonstrate that the uni…
Men’s Vasectomy Knowledge, Attitudes, and Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Southern United States: Results From an Exploratory Survey
Vasectomy is one of the few options men have to manage their reproductive capacity and take on a more equitable role in pregnancy prevention. While the method is underused throughout the United States, the southern states have a lower prevalence rate compared to the rest of the country. Existing survey research does not assess what men know or think about the procedure as a means of understanding why this is the case. We created and conducted an …
The age of Larc: Making Sexual Citizens on the Frontiers of Technoscientific Healthism
approach to contraceptive use. We suggest that immediate postpartum LARC insertion policies, which have proliferated in the U.S. since 2012, exemplify the new era of LARC hegemony, in which urgency, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes dominate both health policy and clinical practice around these contraceptive technologies. By following these efforts to facilitate access to and use of immediate postpartum LARC, we find a discourse on sex…
Efficacy as safety: Dominant cultural assumptions and the assessment of contraceptive risk
Gender Inequality in Reproductive Health
This review highlights insights from Rene Almeling’s book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, regarding the social processes that inform cultural assumptions about the relationships between gender, bodies, health, and reproduction
The power of persuasion: Normative accountability and clinicians’ practices of contraceptive counseling
Efforts to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy by expanding access to and use of a new generation of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in recent years led to the wide-spread adoption of a tiered effectiveness (i.e., LARC-first) approach to contraceptive counseling in clinical practice. While reproductive justice scholar-advocates have critiqued this approach for how it may limit pregnancy-capable people's reproductive decision-…
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction
The Biomedical Subjectification of Women of Advanced Maternal Age: Reproductive Risk, Privilege, and the Illusion of Control
The United States is experiencing a demographic transition toward older motherhood. Biomedicine classifies pregnancies among all women of advanced maternal age (AMA) as high-risk; paradoxically, women having first births at AMA are typically economically and racially privileged, which can reduce the risk of risks. This article examines the implications of the biomedicalization of AMA for first-time mothers, age 35 and older, using qualitative int…
U.S. college students’ perspectives on contraception and abortion post-Dobbs: The influence of socioeconomic privilege and gender inequity
This study examined college students’ perspectives about contraception and abortion in the context of the United States Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted between October 2022 and February 2023 with a convenience sample of 20 college students, ages 18–22, attending a public university in the southeastern United States. Qualitative data anal…
Exploring adolescent‐facing US clinicians' perceptions of their contraceptive counseling and use of shared decision‐making: A qualitative study
Clinicians in this study frequently engaged in non-patient-centered techniques during contraceptive counseling with adolescents. These findings can inform practice recommendations to support clinicians in providing high-quality contraceptive counseling using shared decision-making
Living on a low income during the cost-of-living crisis: Exploring experiences and perceptions
Drawing upon data from Changing Realities, an online participatory research project collected between September-October 2022 and March-April 2023, this article generates new knowledge on the lived experiences of low-income families in the UK during this turbulent political period and particularly through the (ongoing) cost-of-living crisis. Utilising the work of Wright and McIntosh, we articulate the ‘shared typical’ discernible of lived experien…
Unveiling the Human Experience of Medicaid Renewals: Using a Data-Driven and Human Centered Design Approach to Improve Public Service Delivery
This case study demonstrates how a transdisciplinary, human-centered approach to research and process improvement can increase efficiency, enrollment, and customer experience across a complex ecosystem of organizations, people, processes, and technologies. In the wake of an executive order to improve customer experience and service delivery, a team at the United States Digital Service (USDS) worked with Centers for Medicaid and the Children's Hea…
The biomedicalization of pregnancy prevention, neoliberal feminism, and college women's experiences of the contraceptive paradox
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Population (13 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Reproductive health (11 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)