Contextualizing Young Mothers’ Agency in Nairobi through Photovoice and Interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6426059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milka Nyariro (0000-0001-6584-9628, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 112-126 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2025.180210 |
| OpenAlex | W4412599779 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Despite the existing international policy frameworks that protect the rights and well-being of young mothers and pregnant girls, they continue to be stigmatized and face several barriers every day. However, they exercise agency. In this article, I discuss, from a critical feminist perspective, a photovoice exhibition by young mothers in Nairobi who were working to recover their agency, and I discuss their interview transcripts. Contextualizing it is key to acknowledging agency among these girls and young women, especially those in non-western contexts like sub-Saharan African countries. The findings from this study reveal that pregnant adolescents and young mothers live and express their agency in ways that are determined by their physical and social environments
Agency (philosophy · Economic growth · Photovoice · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology
Photovoice
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Teenage Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa
If you start thinking positively, you won't miss sex’
The ‘Causes’ of Teenage Pregnancy
Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations
Reframing African Girlhood
Toward a Definition of Transnational Girlhood
A Turn to the African Girl
Young Mothers as Peer Researchers in a Collaborative Study
Re-Conceptualizing School Continuation & Re-Entry Policy for Young Mothers Living in an Urban Slum Context in Nairobi, Kenya
Teenage mothers’ experiences of stigma
Monitoring of Health and Demographic Outcomes in Poor Urban Settlements
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
We have heard you but we are not changing anything”
Teenage Mothers, Stigma and Their 'Presentations of Self
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |