Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kelly, Deirdre M.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, ©2000.

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Description

xi, 257 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Pregnant with Meaning, links an ethnographic study of two schools to the wider North American political and economic context. Mindful of myriad, shifting power relations within the research setting, Deirdre M. Kelly scrutinizes her own practices as a participant observer and contributes new knowledge in the areas of sexuality education, detracking curriculum, and the politics of representation. Against the prevailing neoliberal/moral conservative consensus, she develops a critical feminist argument for integrating teen mothers and rethinking school and classroom practices."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Adolescent cultures, school, and society ; v. 13

Uniform Title

Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 13.

Subject

• Teenage mothers > Education > Social aspects > British Columbia > Case studies
• Feminism and education
• Pregnant students > Education > Social aspects > British Columbia > Case studies
• Feminism and education
• Schülerin
• Schwangerschaft
• Schulische Integration
• Junge Mutter
• Stigmatisierung
• British Columbia

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

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

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 Good Choices Discourse: A Fashionable, Flawed Attempt to Avoid Stigma 47 -- Good Choices Discourse: Spanning the Ideological Divide 48 -- Choice to Have Premarital Sex 52 -- Choice to Use Contraception 53 -- Choice to Have an Abortion 55 -- Choice to Marry 57 -- Opting for Adoption versus Keeping the Baby 58 -- 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 -- Play's the Thing That Silences 150 -- "Emperor's-New-Clothes" Approach to Sexuality Education 153 -- Teen Mothers Enter: Muted and Conflicting Voices 156 -- Chapter 8 Warning Labels: Stigma and the Popularizing of the Stories of Teen Mothers 161 -- 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.

ISBN

• 0820445363
• 9780820445366

LCCN

99037975

OCLC

• ocm41871296
• 41871296
• SCSB-8921398

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library