Black Women's HealthPub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0005
M. Berger
{"title":"“I Want That First Kiss to Be Perfect”","authors":"M. Berger","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, I explore how mothers grapple with communication about sexuality and intimacy. Mothers’ fears and insecurities about how their daughters will negotiate relationships and sexuality distinctly emerge in these narratives. In discussing their concerns about their daughters, their own sexual histories and challenges they experienced with their parents and peers (but most especially, their mothers) are revealed.\u0000The themes in this chapter reveal the threats they viewed to their daughters’ transition into young womanhood, especially an unplanned pregnancy. These include combating negative peer influences, male attention, and popular culture influences. We also begin to see how single-parent status and being a young mother influence patterns of communication across groups.","PeriodicalId":115355,"journal":{"name":"Black Women's Health","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132053881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Women's HealthPub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0003
M. Berger
{"title":"Mothers’ Health Narratives","authors":"M. Berger","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The ways in which mothers define health, their health experiences, and expectations for themselves and their daughters are the focus front in this chapter. It also investigates the ways that mothers communicate expectations about their daughters’ health. Four themes emerge in the mothers’ narratives of health: (1) mothering practices of health; (2) implicit and explicit barriers to health, including diet and exercise; (3) how race and gender inform their experiences navigating health care and their experience with medical providers; and (4) their perceptions of risk of daughters’ health.","PeriodicalId":115355,"journal":{"name":"Black Women's Health","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127950781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Women's HealthPub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0006
M. Berger
{"title":"“Mom, Can We Talk about Sex?”","authors":"M. Berger","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"What are the things that daughters would most like to know about relationships, intimacy, and sexuality from their mothers and adult female figures? What is the social landscape regarding sexuality and what mixed messages do daughters have to navigate? Who do they turn to when they have questions about sex and intimacy? This chapter explores all of these questions. My research suggests a mismatch with mothers’ perceptions of easy and open communication about sexual health and sexuality with their daughters and what daughters express. Although many mothers saw themselves as more open and receptive to talking about sexual health (and health in general) compared to their own mothers, daughters did not believe they could get accurate, nonjudgmental information from their mothers. Many daughters talked to other women and female peers about sexuality and sexual health. For daughters who do not have other adults to turn to for information about sexual health, it is not clear where or how they will obtain knowledge about sexual health, STDs, and HIV-prevention information.\u0000I argue that mothers are using outdated “gendered” scripts that exclusively focus on daughters’ virginity. Daughters expressed the desire for information and skill-building around communication.\u0000Their responses to a scenario posed to daughters, I argue, reveal the ways in which gendered behavior shapes and constrains their expectations about male and female relationships and illuminates the micro-dynamics of gender.","PeriodicalId":115355,"journal":{"name":"Black Women's Health","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128223611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Women's HealthPub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0004
M. Berger
{"title":"“I’m in Between”","authors":"M. Berger","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"How do young African American girls, in this study, discuss and define their health? What does health mean to them? What stories do they tell about their mothers and grandmothers? What kinds of health inheritances have they received from their mothers and maternal grandmothers? Do they perceive any barriers to their health? If so, what are they? What has been their experience with medical providers? Rarely is there an opportunity to delve deeply into how young African American girls perceive their health and the health care that they receive. This chapter explores daughters’ perceptions of their health and their mothers’ health, their barriers to health, and experiences with medical providers. It explores the nature of communication about their health between them and their mothers.\u0000Although many of the daughters have been exposed to a great deal of health information and health-care access, they often do not view or experience themselves as healthy. Their narratives also indicate areas of strength and resilience in girls’ awareness of the media’s role in circulating unrealistic gendered images.","PeriodicalId":115355,"journal":{"name":"Black Women's Health","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126726407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Women's HealthPub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0002
M. Berger
{"title":"Mother and Daughter Narratives about Health, Sexuality, and Young Womanhood","authors":"M. Berger","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828524.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents general patterns about the relationships between Southern African American women and their adolescent daughters with a focus on health, well-being, and sexuality as topics that emerge from the data. My typology of the mother and daughter focus groups is presented with specific characterizations to help readers distinguish among each group and how their “worldview” reflected particular themes. For example, one group is called “Experts” because of the ways the group articulated the choices they made about how they discussed health-related issues with their daughters. It also refers to the way that they positioned themselves in the context of their expertise as health professionals. Analysis reveals how mothers talk among themselves and how daughters talk among themselves about key issues. The major themes that are connected to young womanhood are those of respect, trust, and pressure.","PeriodicalId":115355,"journal":{"name":"Black Women's Health","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129100390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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