Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager
Narratives from the field(s)
by Annelies Kamp, Majella McSharry
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Book Description
In 2003, Wendy Luttrell posed an important question: what might result if we were able to turn questions of judgement about pregnant and parenting teenagers into questions of interest about their sense of self and identity-making? This book takes up the challenge, offering a re/assemblage of what is, can be and perhaps should be known about teenage pregnancy and parenting in the context of the twenty-first century. The collection presents original contributions from leading commentators in four key contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland, all sites of elevated incidence of and/or concern around what is commonly articulated as the «problem» of teenage pregnancy and parenting. In offering a multi-disciplinary reading of the narratives of young men and women, this volume engages with the ambiguity shared by all of us in confronting the life transition that is pregnancy and parenting.This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). You can download Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager ebook for free in PDF format (2.4 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Conceiving a Re/Assemblage of Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting
Chapter 2
Within and Apart: Re/Positioning the Education of Teenage Parents in Aotearoa New Zealand
Chapter 3
What's Happening to My Body?: The Growing, Glowing and Grotesque Teenage Belly
Chapter 4
Teen Mothering in the United States: Fertile Ground for Shifting the Paradigm
Chapter 5
'It changed my life': Rethinking the Consequences of Teenage Fatherhood
Chapter 6
Irish Television and the Assemblage of Personal Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion
Chapter 7
The Construction of Teenage Parenting in the Republic of Ireland
Chapter 8
Irish Travellers and Teenage Pregnancy: A Feminist, Cultural, Relativist Analysis
Chapter 9
Personal Decisions, Responsible Mothering: Un-picking Key Decisions Made by Young Mothers
Chapter 10
Teenagers, Sexualities-Education Assemblages and Sexual Citizenship: A New Materialist Analysis
Chapter 11
What If Becoming a Teenage Parent Saved Your Life?
Chapter 12
The 'Missing' Parent: Teenage Fathers Talk About the Meaning of Early Parenthood
Book Details
Title
Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager
Subject
Sociology and Social Sciences
Publisher
Peter Lang
Published
2018
Pages
326
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9781787071803
ISBN10
1787071804
ISBN13 Digital
9781787075139
ISBN10 Digital
1787075133
PDF Size
2.4 MB
License
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