Accessing emergency contraception
The Role of Friends in the Adolescent Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2266167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debbie Fallon (0000-0002-7893-6576, University of Salford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 677-694 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01237.x |
| PMID | 20553423 |
| OpenAlex | W1521239249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper focuses on the findings of a qualitative study that explored adolescent experiences of accessing emergency hormonal contraception (EHC). It describes how anticipated judgements and associated feelings of embarrassment and shame were dealt with through friendship. The paper outlines how, contrary to the notion of the 'mean girl', friends assumed crucial supporting roles which included confidante, advisor, and motivator. In some cases this included physically accompanying hesitant friends to sexual health services. The narrative brought to light how friends often kept each other on the straight and narrow, providing a sharp contrast to the image of irresponsible or shameless adolescents. Being this friend was transformative, offering a kind of reform that allowed a shift from the perceived label of promiscuous risk taker to that of informal advisor and supporter. The study concluded that friends were instrumental in the successful negotiation of the powerful discourses of risk and responsibility in the health arena and that this example of female solidarity at a time of crisis potentially plays a key role in adolescent sexual health
Developmental psychology · Embarrassment · Feeling · Friendship · Girl · Narrative · Negotiation · Qualitative research · Safeguarding · Shame · Sociology · Solidarity · Transformative learning · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Adolescent Sexual Risk
The social meanings of the C-Card scheme
Contraception d’urgence au Brésil
Does the knowledge of emergency contraception affect its use among high school adolescents
Conhecimento sobre anticoncepção de emergência entre adolescentes do Ensino Médio de escolas públicas e privadas
Silêncio e vergonha
Os perigos subsumidos na contracepção de emergência
Growing Up Girl
The Body, Childhood and Society
Feminism and Youth Culture
Growing Up as Risky Business? Risks, Surveillance and the Institutionalized Mistrust of Youth
I. Securing Her Experience
VII. The Mean Girl Crisis
The Best of Friends
Absences that Matter
A New Universal Mean Girl
British policy on teenage pregnancy and childbearing
Troubling Safe Choices
Condoms and the Making of Sexual Differences in Aids Heterosexual Culture
Troubled Teens
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation
| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |