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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450841803321

Autore

Pillow Wanda S.

Titolo

Unfit subjects : educational policy and the teen mother / / Wanda S. Pillow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

0-415-94493-7

1-134-00067-7

1-280-07733-6

0-203-46560-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

373.1826/947

Soggetti

Teenage pregnancy - Education (Secondary) - United States

Teenage mothers - Education (Secondary) - United States

Sex discrimination in education - Law and legislation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Constructing Teen Pregnancy as a Problem; Title IX and the Discursive Climate of Education for School-Age Mothers; Schooling Responses to Teen Mothers Absences, Colds, and Disabilities; The Teen Mother as a Student Who Is She  What Do Schools Do with Her?; The ~Dual-Role~ Model of Schooling the Teen Mother; Incitement to Discourse Talking about Sex in Abstinence-Only Education Movements; Education for Teen Mothers; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Wanda Pillow offers an in-depth examination of how schools are providing (and failing to provide) educational opportunities for school-aged mothers in America.