Dubious Conceptions

The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy

Kristin Luker

    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

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