Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-93188-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. Also includes an 8-page color insert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luttrell, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements preface Part One: Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Schooling I. Separate and Unequal II: Shame, Blame, and the Stigma Wars Part II: Pregnant With Meaning Introduction III: Self Portraits: From Girlhood to Motherhood IV: Making the Self-Which-I-Might-Be V. Showing and Telling Pregnancy Stories Representing Youth Worlds, Identities, and Relationships Part III: Notes to and from the Field V.Entering Girls' Worlds VI.Split At the Roots: Re-thinking Educational Practice Epilogue Appendices Referen ces

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Luttrell is Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling (Routledge), winner of the 1998 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.