Pregnant with meaning : teen mothers and the politics of inclusive schooling / Deirdre M. Kelly.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kelly, Deirdre M.

Series:

• Adolescent cultures, school & society ; vol. 13.
• Adolescent cultures, school & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Teenage mothers--Education--Social aspects--British Columbia--Case studies.
• Feminism and education.
• Teenage mothers--Education.
• Social aspects.
• Teenage mothers.
• British Columbia.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2000]

Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Locating the Study in Historical and Political Context 1
• Dilemmas of Difference and the Ideal of Inclusive Schooling 5
• A Critical Feminist Stance 8
• Placing City and Town Schools in the Historical Context of School Inclusiveness 10
• Placing British Columbia within the Current North American Political Mood 15
• Pregnant Students: No Uniform Meaning 19
• Chapter 2 Pregnant with Meaning: Teen Mothers as Catch-all Enemies 25
• "Stupid Sluts" 27
• "Children Having Children" 31
• "Welfare Moms" 35
• "Dropouts" 37
• "Neglectful Mothers" 38
• Flash Point: The Case of Teen Mothers Who Smoke 40
• Images Refracted through Lenses of Gender, Sexuality, Class, and Race 42
• Contradictory and Overlapping Negative Images 45
• Chapter 3 The Good Choices Discourse: A Fashionable, Flawed Attempt to Avoid Stigma 47
• The Good Choices Discourse: Spanning the Ideological Divide 48
• The Choice to Have Premarital Sex 52
• The Choice to Use Contraception 53
• The Choice to Have an Abortion 55
• The Choice to Marry 57
• Opting for Adoption versus Keeping the Baby 58
• The Choice to Have a Second Baby 60
• Subtexts of the Good Choices Discourse 61
• Chapter 4 Stigma Stories in the Media: Four Discourses about Teen Mothers, Welfare, and Poverty 67
• Media and Discourse Theory 68
• A Critical Feminist Interpretation of the Scholarly Research on Teen Mothers, Welfare, and Poverty 70
• Stigma Contest: Discourses about Teen Mothers 73
• Implications 87
• Chapter 5 Integrating Teen Mothers into City and Town Schools: Coping with the Dilemma of Difference 91
• Creating Community Buy-In 93
• Fighting for Visibility: The Politics of Location 96
• Building Political Support within the School 99
• Monitoring Student Attendance and Progress 104
• Providing Support and Accommodation 106
• Using Teen Mothers as Role Models: "Shining Stars" or "Communicators of Reality"? 107
• Advocating with and for Teen Mothers 112
• Chapter 6 Therapeutic Haven Versus Real-World Microcosm: How Citizenship Challenges the Dichotomy 121
• Teen-Age Parents Program as Haven 123
• Teen-Age Parents Program as Real-World Microcosm 137
• Chapter 7 Inconceivable Conceptions: The Politics of Silence at Town School 149
• The Play's the Thing That Silences 150
• The "Emperor's-New-Clothes" Approach to Sexuality Education 153
• The Teen Mothers Enter: Muted and Conflicting Voices 156
• Chapter 8 Warning Labels: Stigma and the Popularizing of the Stories of Teen Mothers 161
• The Appeal of Play-Building and the Pitfalls of Experience as a Building Block 162
• Enter the Ethnographer, Stage Left 164
• Building the Play 165
• Performing the Play, Answering Questions 172
• Interpreting the Play 176
• Chapter 9 Studying Up, Down, and Across in Schools; Speaking About, For, and With Teen Mothers: Dilemmas of a Critical Feminist Ethnographer 185
• Studying Up, Down, and Across in Schools: Fieldwork Dilemmas 188
• Speaking About, For, and With Teen Mothers: Writing Dilemmas 204
• Chapter 10 Teen Mothers and the Inclusive Ideal: Toward a Critical Feminist Stance 213
• Reproductive Rights for All Women, Regardless of Age, Class, and Race 214
• Nurturing Agency, Promoting Collective Social Responsibility 215
• Challenging the Dependence-Independence Dichotomy 216
• Challenging the Ideologies of the Good Mother and Good Father 218
• Translating the Critical Feminist Stance into Policy 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0820445363

OCLC:

41871296