Full Description
Communicating Intimate Health presents an edited collection of original, empirical research, personal essays, autoethnography, critical reviews, and theoretical work showcasing advances in intimate health research from the field of communication studies. Intimate health includes sexual and reproductive health, sexual activity, sexuality, gender, and reproductive justice. The contributors vulnerably engage subjects including: parent-child, partner, patient-provider, and larger societal discourse and communication about sexuality education, HIV, family planning, purity pledges, (in)fertility, breastfeeding, and Black maternal health, sexting, boundary setting, consent, border justice, trauma, contraception, and menstruation, among others. Featuring both new research and vulnerable reflections on the research process, Communicating Intimate Health showcases the potential of communication scholarship to engage intimately with intimate topics.
Contents
Table of Content
Introduction: Communicating Intimate Health: From the Bedroom to the Doctor's Office
Valerie Rubinsky & Angela Cooke-Jackson
Part 1: Absence as a Theme of Intimate Health Communication
Chapter 1: Sweet Nothings: A Journey of (Gay) Sex without Condoms
By Andrew Spieldenner & Nic Flores
Chapter 2: "Why Don't All Parents Talk About This Stuff:" Informational, Emotional, and Cultural Barriers to Meaningful Parent-Child Conversations About Sex
By Amanda Holman
Chapter 3: "The Sex Talk was Taboo... So was Wearing a Tampon:" Sexual and Menstrual Health Conversations among Young Latina and Latinx Women and Gender Minorities
By Ashley Aragón and Angela Cooke-Jackson
Chapter 4: Intimate Conversations about Sex and Sexuality: Lessons Learned from Studying Purity Pledges
By Jimmie Manning
Chapter 5: Intimate Communication Guidelines for Transformative Sexual Education
By Angela Cooke-Jackson, Taylor McMahon, and Kavita Shah
Chapter 6: The (S)lack of Queer Healthcare in Appalachia
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