Understanding Teenage Motherhood through Feminist Research: A reflection on the challenges

Kyla Ellis-Sloan

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.1370

Entendiendo la maternidad adolescente a través de la investigación feminista: Una reflexión sobre los desafíos

Autores/as

Kyla Ellis-Sloan University of Brighton

Resumen

Este artículo se basa en un estudio etnográfico con madres adolescentes y analiza cómo la investigación incorporó objetivos políticos feministas y cuestiones éticas. El artículo se centra, en particular, en un asunto clave para las investigadoras feministas, el del poder jerárquico en el marco de la investigación, con el objetivo de demostrar los desafíos y ventajas de la investigación feminista. Para mitigar las relaciones de poder se tomaron distintos enfoques, que han sido analizados y reflejados en el trabajo. Después, el texto continúa interrogando la posición de la autora como “investigadora infiltrada”. El artículo muestra cómo la investigación feminista permitió que la posición de la investigadora fuese reconocida, analizada y criticada, asegurando de este modo la consistencia de la investigación que desafía las nociones convencionales de objetividad.

Palabras clave

Embarazo adolescente, Maternidad adolescente, Investigación infiltrada, Investigación feminista

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Biografía del autor/a

Kyla Ellis-Sloan, University of Brighton

Kyla is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton. Her doctoral thesis (completed in 2012) examined teenage motherhood. Kyla continues to work in this area and is currently focusing on changes to government support for young parents in the UK.