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Irish television and the assemblage of personal narratives of teenage pregnancy and abortion

Ryan, Áine, Ging, Debbie orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6664-5560, Kamp, Annelies orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9442-0908 and McSharry, Majella orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-8987-2267 (2018) Irish television and the assemblage of personal narratives of teenage pregnancy and abortion. In: Kamp, Annelies orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9442-0908 and McSharry, Majella orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-8987-2267, (eds.) Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager: Narratives from the Field. Peter Lang AG, Oxford, pp. 127-146. ISBN 978-1-78707-180-3

Abstract
A pregnancy can be deemed a crisis for a number of different reasons. For several years in the Republic of Ireland, a pregnancy was automatically labelled a crisis if the pregnant woman wasn’t married. Media coverage of scandals which centred on unplanned teenage pregnancies in the 1980s and 1990s caused some Irish people to reflect on the conservative principles of Catholicism with which they were raised and the consequences of those in the lives of others. This chapter draws on research which examined the presence, and absence, of personal narratives of crisis pregnancy from specific texts which aired on Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). These texts are The Teens’ Midwife (2013), 50,000 Secret Journeys (1994) and footage from RTÉ News and Prime Time for the twelve-month period from July 2015 to June 2016. These texts are illustrative of the extent to which societal attitudes and political stances towards teenage pregnancy and abortion in Ireland have evolved over a twenty-two-year period.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Social Sciences > Mass media
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Communications
Publisher:Peter Lang AG
Official URL:https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2t4b9h.9
Copyright Information:© 2018 The Authors. Open Access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
ID Code:26995
Deposited On:06 Apr 2022 13:51 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 06 Apr 2022 13:51
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