- Title
- Teenage pregnancy and the construction of adolescence : scientific literature in South Africa
- Creator
- Macleod, Catriona I
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6258
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007876
- Identifier
- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0907568203104003
- Description
- The depiction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem relies on the assumption of adolescence as a separable stage of development. Utilising a Derridian framework, I analyse how the dominant construction of adolescence as a transitional stage: (1) acts as an attempt to decide the undecidable (viz. the adolescent who is neither child nor adult, but simultaneously both) – an attempt which collapses in the face of teenage pregnancy; (2) relies on the ideal adult as the endpoint of development, and (3) has effects in terms of gendered and expert/parent/adolescent power relations.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Macleod, C. (2003) Teenage pregnancy and the construction of adolescence: Scientific literature in South Africa. Childhood, 10 (4). pp. 419-437. ISSN 0907-5682. Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568203104003
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