Too Much Too Young? Revisiting Young Motherhood. Issue 1 (8th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thomson, Rachel
• Is Part Of: Studies in the maternal. Volume 13:Issue 1(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-12-08
• Subjects: Motherhood -- Periodicals; 306.8743
• DOI: 10.16995/sim.287
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1759-0434

Abstract

Part of a 10 year Anniversary issue this short paper reflects on a 30 year period in the UK where young motherhood moves from being a respectable working class practice into the 'problem' of teenage pregnancy, subsequently 'solved' and replaced by new categories of concern. Working with her own field notes generated as part of a sociological study of teenage sexuality carried out in Manchester in 1989, the author engages with awkwardness and resistance in the texts and reflects on the ambivalent place of motherhood in the feminist narratives of empowerment that shaped the enquiry.