ABSTRACT
Over the past decades, there have been concerns about the prevalence of teenage pregnancy around the world. In Mexico, teenage pregnancy has often been portrayed as a major social problem that must be eradicated because of its negative impact on society, as well as on the lives of young mothers and their children. This research aims to surface the experiences of teenage mothers in an attempt to incorporate the voices of young, pregnant women who are usually absent from the mainstream scholarship on the topic. This chapter explores the subjective experiences of teenage pregnancy in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. It uses a feminist reproductive justice and intersectional approach to look at how the interrelationship of multiple systems of oppression shapes such occurrences and lived experiences. By looking at the subjective experiences of teenage pregnancy from a reproductive justice and intersectional perspective, we can examine both the meanings around teenage pregnancies and the systemic contexts of inequality where such events take place. The findings of this study demonstrate the need to look at the broader social contexts where these occurrences unfold as a way of moving beyond analyses that emphasise the early age of teenage mothers and tend to overlook other axes of power that influence their childbearing experiences.
