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Dubious Conceptions

The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy

Kristin Luker

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ISBN 9780674217034

Publication Date: 10/01/1997

304 pages

6 x 9-1/4 inches

11 tables

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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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