Dubious Conceptions The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy

Name: Dubious Conceptions The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy
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ISBN: 9780674217034

ISBN-10: 0674217039

ISBN-13: 9780674217034

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Kristin Luker, Dubious Luker

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Dubious Conceptions takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric and the flip media sound bites to show the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Kristin Luker is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School. She is the author of the landmark book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and lives in Berkeley, California.




The Problem and Its Human Face



Bastardy, Fitness, and the Invention of Adolescence



Poverty, Fertility, and the State



Constructing an Epidemic



Choice and Consequence



Why Do They Do It?



Teenage Parents and the Future Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index