Description:
This book considers the opposition between pregnancy and parenthood on the one hand, and education on the other, using the specific case of in-school pregnancy in Mozambique.
Review Quotes:
"Francesca Salvi's book is remarkably insightful of teenage pregnancy and education in the Global South. It is deeply theorised as it situates teenage pregnancy within broader kinship and relational networks in Mozambique addressing the significance of partners, family, friends and peers in the experience of 'in-school' pregnancy. By the end of the book we have expanded understanding of agency, of multiple modernities as young people strive to build their lives. A significant study that scholars interested in gender, schooling, young people and teenage pregnancy must read!" -- Deevia Bhana, Professor and DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
"Salvi's ground-breaking and timely book offers a new and captivating perspective on pregnancy among school girls in southern Africa by refuting modernising policies that label the girls as victims and the pregnancy as an impediment to education and modernity. It contextualises young women's search for their identity in a rapidly changing world." -- Soraya Tremayne, Founding Director, Fertility & Reproduction Studies Group, Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, UK
"This important book challenges the binary opposition of adolescent pregnancy and educational access by focusing on girls' agency. Salvi identifies challenges to continued enrolment at the policy, implementation, and social levels, and suggests a new path for Mozambique as it considers revising its national policy on in-school pregnancy." -- Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University, USA