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This study explores the formation of gender identity and the sexual practices of teens in Kumasi, Ghana within the context of the growing emphasis on formal schooling. Direct interviews with students, teachers and members of the community offer a rich variety of data that allows for important conclusions about shifting conceptions of family, education, production and reproduction.

Teenage mothers. --- Teenage pregnancy -- Statistics. --- Teenage pregnancy. --- Youth -- Sexual behavior. --- Teenage girls --- Pregnant teenagers --- Sex instruction for girls --- Puberty rites --- Sex customs --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Child & Youth Development --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Initiation rites --- Rites and ceremonies --- Girls --- Pregnant schoolgirls --- Adolescent girls --- Female adolescents --- Teenagers --- Attitudes --- Conduct of life --- Ghana --- Social life and customs.