"A source of anxiety like never before": Unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourse

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dc.contributor.authorKiely, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorGing, Debbie
dc.contributor.authorKitching, Karl
dc.contributor.authorLeane, Máire
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-09T11:57:38Z
dc.date.available2021-08-09T11:57:38Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-11
dc.date.updated2021-08-09T11:51:59Z
dc.description.abstractDrawing on a corpus of articles pertaining to the sexualisation of children in national Irish newspapers (2012-2014) and using tools provided by critical discourse analysis, the discourses in their Irish cultural context are ‘unpacked’ (Egan & Hawkes, 2008) toward identifying their peculiarities but also their similarities with the discourses on the sexualisation of children, produced in other country contexts. The construction of sexualisation as a child protection problem is explored as are its presumed bad effects on children and its required solutions. The age related, gendered and classed cultural assumptions explicit and implicit in the discourses are revealed. The paper concludes with a discussion as to how sexualised childhood and its binary opposite innocent childhood, were mobilised in the print media in the service of agendas, which celebrated and obviated features of Irish societal culture, past and present.en
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dc.identifier.articleid500en
dc.identifier.citationKiely, E., Ging, D., Kitching, K. and Leane, M. (2021) 'A source of anxiety like never before: Unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourse', TEANGA: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 12(12), pp. 89-113. Available at: https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/500 (Accessed: 9 August 2021)en
dc.identifier.eissn2565-6325
dc.identifier.endpage113en
dc.identifier.issued12en
dc.identifier.journaltitleTeangaen
dc.identifier.startpage89en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11701
dc.identifier.volume12en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIrish Association for Applied Linguisticsen
dc.relation.urihttps://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/500
dc.rights© 2021, TEANGA, The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectSexualisationen
dc.subjectMediaen
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectDiscourseen
dc.title"A source of anxiety like never before": Unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourseen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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