Communicating Intimate Health

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<p><span>Communicating Intimate Health</span><span> 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,</span><span>Communicating Intimate Health</span><span> showcases the potential of communication scholarship to engage intimately with intimate topics.</span></p><p></p>

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<p><span>Angela F. Cooke-Jackson</span><span></span><span>is associate professor of health communication and behavioral science at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-director of the Intimate Communication Lab.</span></p><p><span>Valerie Rubinsky</span><span> is assistant professor of communication at the University of Maine at Augusta and co-director of the Intimate Communication Lab.</span></p>

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