I've read a fair portion of it. Took it out from the school library to research for a seminar I did on adolescent mothering and tried to skim through it for info, but kept getting sucked in and reading chunks. It was very interesting, I would really recommend it. I can't remember a ton about it, because I was reading so much other stuff at the time. I did take some notes from it, I wonder if I can find them... Will post more later if I come across them.

At the time I read another book that was similar (totally different focuses, but both feminist ethnographic studies of school programs for teen moms, so thought I'd mention it) called Pregnant With Meaning: Teen Mothers and the Politics of Inclusive Schooling by Deirdre Kelly and I really liked it as well. I feel like it's worthwhile to read them together if you can get your hands on both (I would read Luttrel's book first though).

Luttrel really focuses on race and gender/race intersections, and so it's more general info about the issue IMO but it's also really in-depth (if that makes sense). Really valuable read. Whereas Kelly's book is more specialized (focuses on what is the best way to school teen moms, what are the power dynamics working in the school programs...) and less interesting probably to the average reader for that reason, the strength IMO of Kelly's book is that she does a discourse analysis, so you understand the context and background and where the stigma comes from and why it's so hard to counteract, and she also talks about developing an oppositional discourse (which she refers to as the wrong-society discourse), which IMO is key for social change. Really interesting stuff. Luttrel does talk about Kelly's discourse analysis in her book in a chapter I think called "Shame, Blame, and the Stigma Wars" (yeah, I googled. LOL) but she doesn't get into the detail Kelly does.

Sounds like something I would like to read, but I haven't yet..