Dubious Conceptions - The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy

Introducing readers to the young women who are the object of so much opprobrium--teenage mothers ("babies having babies")--this powerful book goes behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to reveal the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.

List of contents

1. The Problem and Its Human Face 2. Bastardy, Fitness, and the Invention of Adolescence 3. Poverty, Fertility, and the State 4. Constructing an Epidemic 5. Choice and Consequence 6. Why Do They Do It? 7. Teenage Parents and the Future Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the author

Kristin Luker is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Dubious Luker, Kristin Luker, Luker Kristin
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780674217034
• ISBN: 978-0-674-21703-4
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: 11 tables
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships, Poverty and precarity, Sociology: Birth