Losing self to the future? Young women's strategic responses to adulthood transitions

Sanders, Jackie; Munford, Robyn

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“…There is an important link with educational achievement here, as secondary school is a time when young girls develop impressions about their own ability vis-a-vis their peers [ 50 ]. Female adolescents in particular are socialised into relational (whether with peers, boyfriends or family) rather than autonomous roles and this makes them vulnerable to the actions and behaviours of others [ 51 ]. As adolescence is a vulnerable developmental stage, relationships have the potential to undermine confidence and self-esteem among young women [ 52 ].…”

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Young women’s perceptions of transactional sex and sexual agency: a qualitative study in the context of rural South Africa

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Background: Evidence shows that HIV prevalence among young women in sub-Saharan Africa increases almost five-fold between ages 15 and 24, with almost a quarter of young women infected by their early-to mid-20s. Transactional sex or material exchange for sex is a relationship dynamic that has been shown to have an association with HIV infection. Methods: Using five focus group discussions and 19 in-depth interviews with young women enrolled in the HPTN 068 conditional cash transfer trial (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015), this qualitative study explores young women's perceptions of transactional sex within the structural and cultural context of rural South Africa. The analysis also considers the degree to which young women perceive themselves as active agents in such relationships and whether they recognise a link between transactional sex and HIV risk.

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“…Emotional comfort and support following the creation of trust, combining to act as a mechanism for building short term recovery strategies, allowing young women to resume their 'normal' activities, and achieve respite from upset for varying lengths of time (Shepherd et al, 2010). Recognising an individual young person's gender, life-stage and family resources in relation to their identity is key to developing positive orientations to the self and the future (Sanders and Munford, 2008). Relationships with Engagement Worker such as those described here can offer opportunities for the development of emotional connection, influencing outcomes in adulthood (Schofield and Beek, 2009).…”

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Evaluating a gender-specific intensive intervention programme: Young women’s voices and experiences

Warwick-Booth

Cross

2018

Health Education Journal

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Disadvantaged young women in England have been documented as having unmet needs. This has resulted in the growth of gender-specific intensive intervention programmes in which a more holistic women-centred service approach is still being implemented. Gender matters because structural inequalities (bias and disadvantaging societal conditions) that girls are born into influences health, their outcomes and associated inequalities. Policy-makers frequently call for the outcomes of intervention programmes to be quantified and whilst this is important it can miss opportunities for critical insights into the subjective experiences of participants as well as the context and circumstances within which change occurs. This paper reports evaluation findings from a prototype project (The Way Forward) with a remit focused upon holistic improvement, using gender specific methods and approaches to promote health for disadvantaged young women within a community setting. This paper documents the voices of young women within the project, illustrated through their creation of storyboards within focus group discussions, and interview data from their support workers (Engagement Workers). Findings illustrate the importance of the relational dimension of one to one support in achieving future positive changes in the lives of young women, as well as the complexity associated with attempts to improve their health. This paper therefore presents the young women's perspectives and experiences as well as an accompanying narrative discussing how the service enabled them to make health-related improvements with its main contribution being in the user voices.

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“…It is also reasonable to expect that the norms of the life cycle into which young people have been socialized will be open to question in the context of economic upheaval and uncertainty. Although we do not read the imagined futures written by young people as ‘predictive, or constituting a type of plan that they expected to work towards’, we do see their narratives, following Sanders and Munford, ‘as expressing their understanding of their present time worlds and the possibilities they see for girls and young women [as well as boys and young men] like themselves’ (2008: 331). Although not predictive, the ways in which young people imagine their lives prospectively may well be very significant for how they go on to live them.…”

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey: Young People's Imagined Futures

Lyon

Crow

2012

The Sociological Review

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The 'Living and Working on Sheppey: Past, Present and Future' project took its starting point from the research undertaken by Ray Pahl and his team three decades ago on the Isle of Sheppey. In 2009-11, we revisited some of Pahl's archived material, collected new (including some replicated) data and produced new materials, working collaboratively with community members of the Blue Town Heritage Centre on Sheppey. In this article, we examine the methodological challenges and opportunities of re-studying communities in this way, discuss the implications of community involvement in carrying out a re-study, and present some findings from one aspect of the re-study: young people's imagined futures in 1978 and 2009-10.A number of ideas in this article have been developed from discussions with other members of the project team. We are grateful to Alice Young who worked as Project Co-ordinator on the Living Dawn Lyon and Graham Crow 514

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Losing self to the future? Young women's strategic responses to adulthood transitions

Cited by 32 publications

References 27 publications

Young women’s perceptions of transactional sex and sexual agency: a qualitative study in the context of rural South Africa

Young women’s perceptions of transactional sex and sexual agency: a qualitative study in the context of rural South Africa

Evaluating a gender-specific intensive intervention programme: Young women’s voices and experiences

The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey: Young People's Imagined Futures

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