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Pillow s potent, sophisticated text takes its place within a growing body of feminist scholarship that seeks to interrupt the demonization of pregnant and mothering teens and their symbolic use in debates about declining family values [this text is] a useful call to action for school workers committed to equitable schooling practices, for scholars interested in gender and education issues, and for advocates for the rights of young mothers to reach their full human potential. --Lucy E. Bailey, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (2009), Vol. 9, No. 1: 236-237

Unfit Subjects is a powerful, path breaking, and unflinching critique of educational policy towards pregnant teenagers. By rethinking policy studies and methodology, Wanda Pillow skillfully builds a politically sophisticated case for placing teen mothers at the center of gender and race equity discourse. If you are truly committed to educational opportunity and equality, Unfit Subjects is essential reading. <br>-Mary Romero, author of Maid in the U.S.A. <br> Asking different questions about how teen mothers 'fit' into educational research, policy, and practice, Pillow combines history, ethnography, and textual analysis in a context of Title IX, contraception, abortion, sex education, 'family values, ' welfare reform, and the rhetorics of equal educational opportunity. This book makes an important contribution to feminist policy studies methodology. <br>-Patti Lather, author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern <br> A must-read for those interested in equitable schooling, policy studies, and youth. Pillow carefully documents how dominant, racialized discourses about pregnant and mothering teens have shaped school responses to these young people. Despite a decades-old promise of a right to an equal education, pregnant girls and teen mothers continue to be treated like second-class citizens. Pillow helps us begin to imagine and reframe the meaning of schooling for all young people. <br>-Deirdre Kelly, author of Pregnant with Meaning: Teen Mothers and the Politics of Inclusive Schooling <br> This is a noteworthy book that should galvanize readers to consider how educational and social welfare policies contribute to the educational plight of pregnantand parenting teens and reinforce their prior disadvantage. The book also presents a strong case for improving data and conducting research on the schooling experiences of teen mothers. <br>-The Prevention Researcher, December 2004 <br>

<p> Pillow s potent, sophisticated text takes its place within a growing body of feminist scholarship that seeks to interrupt the demonization of pregnant and mothering teens and their symbolic use in debates about declining family values [this text is] a useful call to action for school workers committed to equitable schooling practices, for scholars interested in gender and education issues, and for advocates for the rights of young mothers to reach their full human potential. --Lucy E. Bailey, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (2009), Vol. 9, No. 1: 236-237

<p> Pillow's potent, sophisticated text takes its place within a growing body of feminist scholarship that seeks to interrupt the demonization of pregnant and mothering teens and their symbolic use in debates about declining family values?[this text is] a useful call to action for school workers committed to equitable schooling practices, for scholars interested in gender and education issues, and for advocates for the rights of young mothers to reach their full human potential. --Lucy E. Bailey, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (2009), Vol. 9, No. 1: 236-237

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