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Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy
Dubious Conceptions The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy
Author: Kristin Luker
ISBN-13: 9780674217027
ISBN-10: 0674217020
Publication Date: 5/1/1996
Pages: 283
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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In this examination of teenage pregnancy in America, Kristin Luker argues persuasively that teen childbearing is not so much a cause as an indicator of poverty, with its roots in a number of behavioral and economic trends.


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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.