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.

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

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