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This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.
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Part 1: Context: The Realities of Pregnancy and Parenting in College 1. Introduction to Title IX as It Relates to Pregnancy 2. "Pregnant Students? We Don¿t Have Those Here": Seeing the Pregnant and Parenting Student Population 3. "How Could This Happen?": Identifying Students¿ Knowledge Gaps and Limited Communication about Pregnancy 4. "There¿s Nothing Else We Can Do for You": Acknowledging the Physical Challenges Surrounding Pregnancy 5. My Dream School Became "Draining": Recognizing the Mental Challenges Surrounding Pregnancy 6. "I Even Wondered, What Are My Rights?": Title IX Compliance and Why It Is Often an Afterthought
Part 2: Introduction to the Case Studies 7. Silent Incompliance at a Mid-Size Private University 8. Hospitality as Compliance at a Small Private College 9. Structural Support and Insufficiencies at a Large State School 10. Complying with Title IX Means Making Schools Supportive Spaces
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Catherine L. Riley is a Part-Time Assistant Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University, USA. This is her first book. It was written while parenting two young children, suffering a miscarriage, and then having and caring for another child.
Alexis Hutchinson is a law student at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, USA. This is her first academic publication. She admires students who balance classes, work, career plans,
and the complexities of pregnancy and parenting.
Carley Dix is an Equity Compliance Administrator and Title IX Coordinator at Davidson College, USA. This is her first book, written while she was pregnant with and then parenting her first child.
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This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.
