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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
About the author(s)/editor(s)
About the book
This eBook can be cited
Contents
Foreword (Wendy Luttrell)
Bibliography
1: Conceiving a Re/Assemblage of Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting (Annelies Kamp / Majella McSharry)
Re/Assemblage
Compelling consequences
Context and constructions
Moving beyond the dichotomy of ruination/salvation
The gathering that follows
Conclusion
Bibliography
2: Within and Apart: Re/Positioning the Education of Teenage Parents in Aotearoa New Zealand (Annelies Kamp)
Introduction
A 1970s’ narrative
Re/Assembling the teenage parent as student
The advent of Teenage Parents Unit
Within, apart and beyond: Extending the fields of education
Constructing particular policy problems
Concluding thoughts
Bibliography
3: What’s Happening to My Body?: The Growing, Glowing and Grotesque Teenage Belly (Majella McSharry)
The body inside
Interrogating the body
Weighing the body
The public pregnant body
The breastfeeding body
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
4: Teen Mothering in the United States: Fertile Ground for Shifting the Paradigm (Lee SmithBattle)
Introducing teen mothering as a problem in the United States
An alarmist paradigm emerges
The science of teen mothering
Qualitative studies of teen mothering
Intervention research
Paradigm shift or retrenchment?
Reimagining the journeys of pregnant and parenting teens
Bibliography
5: ‘It changed my life’: Rethinking the Consequences of Teenage Fatherhood (Jennifer Beggs Weber)
Introduction
Constructing teen fatherhood
Studying teen fathers
‘It changed my life’
Middle-class teen fathers: ‘I’m tryin’ to make my life better to make hers better too’
Working-class teen fathers: ‘Right now, I just gotta keep workin’’
Teen fathers in poverty: ‘It’s only hard if you make it hard’
Rethinking the consequences of teen fatherhood
Bibliography
6: Irish Television and the Assemblage of Personal Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion (Áine Ryan / Debbie Ging / Annelies Kamp / Majella McSharry)
Context and crisis
Introducing the data sources
Personal narrative, disequilibrium and re/assemblage
Irish television and exposure to personal narratives of pregnancy and parenting
The absent presence of the pregnant and parenting teenager
Concluding thoughts
Bibliography
7: The Construction of Teenage Parenting in the Republic of Ireland (Ciara Bradley)
Introduction
The social construction of Irish teenage motherhood
Social policy responses to unmarried pregnancy
The development of social security for those parenting alone 1970–2000
Legislative context
Social change in Ireland: Changing contexts changing lives?
Conclusion
Bibliography
8: Irish Travellers and Teenage Pregnancy: A Feminist, Cultural, Relativist Analysis (Fiona McGaughey)
Introduction
About this research and methodology
About Travellers
Traveller attitudes to sex and sex education
Marriage, family and gender roles
Pregnancy planning, patriarchy and feminist cultural relativism
Conclusion
Bibliography
9: Personal Decisions, Responsible Mothering: Un-picking Key Decisions Made by Young Mothers (Kyla Ellis-Sloan)
Introduction
‘Becoming a teenage mother’: Study context and methods
‘Good’ motherhood versus ‘good’ teenage motherhood: Conflicts around education and employment
Leaving a violent relationship
Teenage mothers’ relationship decisions: Staying together?
‘Good’ mothering, ‘good’ fathers and ‘the’ family
Concluding thoughts: Re-contextualizing ‘the’ teenage mother
Bibliography
10: Teenagers, Sexualities-Education Assemblages and Sexual Citizenship: A New Materialist Analysis (Pam Alldred / Nick J. Fox)
Introduction
A new materialist perspective
The affective micropolitics of sexualities
Three approaches to sexualities education
Discussion: Assembling sexual citizenship
Bibliography
11: What If Becoming a Teenage Parent Saved Your Life? (Jenny Hindin Miller)
Background
Faith’s story
A short history of Karanga Mai Young Parents’ College
Recognizing and responding to students’ needs
Assembling lives
Andy’s story
Kate’s story
Tatiana’s story
‘It was the one place where I felt I was OK’
Assembling positive identities
‘Yoohoo – look at me!’
Teenage motherhood: ‘It just changed my life completely’
Bibliography
12: The ‘Missing’ Parent: Teenage Fathers Talk About the Meaning of Early Parenthood (Keith Tuffin / Gareth Rouch / Karen Frewin)
Introduction
Dominant discourses of the teenage father
Teenage fathers in Aotearoa New Zealand
A discourse of responsibility
A discourse of intergenerational repair
A discourse of positive transformation
A discourse of identity development
Revisiting the international literature on teenage fatherhood
Struggles
The meaning of fatherhood
Relationships
Summary and concluding insights
Bibliography
Coda: The Promise of Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager (Annelies Kamp / Majella McSharry)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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