" This picture represents the way I feel. I feel like a big, heavy ball that can't move. I can't pick up things - I can't do what I usually would do, like go out. People look at me as if they never been feeling like this before..." Tonya Nicholson, teen mother Everyone has a theory about teenage pregnancy. Wendy Luttrell offers an alternate view of a subject that has traditionally been scrutinized in ways that are racializing, class-blind and stigmatizing. Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and how they view themselves. It is a moving ethnography that focuses on fifty girls enrolled in a model public-school program for pregnant teens. The book examines the anxieties, ambivalence and difficulties these girls face and explores how class and race issues add depth and specificity to the experience of their transitions into motherhood and why these issues are missing from discussions of teen pregnancy and schooling. Luttrell's observations emphasize how input from school administers and teachers contributed to the girls' self image development. Too often, schools punish their pregnant students for making bad choices rather than helping them deal with their new reality. Luttrell shows how these situations impact the very people experiencing them.