Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager

This book offers a re/assemblage of what is, can be and should be known about teenage pregnancy and parenting in the twenty-first century. It examines the narratives of young men and women in the USA, the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand and Ireland, all sites of elevated concern around what is often articulated as the 'problem' of teenage parenting.

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.

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Annelies Kamp is Associate Professor in Leadership in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. She was also a teenage parent. In the years since her daughter was born Annelies has completed her education and held senior leadership roles in the public service, industry training and the non-government sector. Her most recent book, A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century, was published in 2014. Majella McSharry is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University in Ireland. She has worked as a secondary school teacher and is currently director of the Professional Master of Education at DCU. Her research has focused predominantly on the embodied experiences of teenagers and particularly the construction and articulation of gender through embodied praxis.

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CONTENTS: Annelies Kamp/Majella McSharry: Conceiving a Re/Assemblage of Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting - Annelies Kamp: Within and Apart: Re/Positioning the Education of Teenage Parents in Aotearoa New Zealand - Majella McSharry: What's Happening to My Body?: The Growing, Glowing and Grotesque Teenage Belly - Lee SmithBattle: Teen Mothering in the United States: Fertile Ground for Shifting the Paradigm - Jennifer Beggs Weber: «It Changed My Life»: Rethinking the Consequences of Teenage Fatherhood - Áine Ryan/Debbie Ging/Annelies Kamp/Majella McSharry: Irish Television and the Assemblage of Personal Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion - Ciara Bradley: The Construction of Teenage Parenting in the Republic of Ireland - Fiona McGaughey: Irish Travellers and Teenage Pregnancy: A Feminist, Cultural, Relativist Analysis - Kyla Ellis-Sloan: Personal Decisions, Responsible Mothering: Un-picking Key Decisions Made by Young Mothers - Pam Alldred and Nick J. Fox: Teenagers, Sexualities-Education Assemblages and Sexual Citizenship: A New Materialist Analysis - Jenny Hindin Miller: What If Becoming a Teenage Parent Saved Your Life? - Keith Tuffin/Gareth Rouch/Karen Frewin: The «Missing» Parent: Teenage Fathers Talk About the Meaning of Early Parenthood - Annelies Kamp/Majella McSharry: Coda: The Promise of Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager.