Kristin Luker - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press, 1975) (ISBN 0-520-02872-4)
• Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (University of California Press, 1984) (ISBN 0-520-05597-7)
• Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of the Teenage Pregnancy Crisis (Harvard University Press, 1996) (ISBN 0-674-21703-9)
• A reminder that human behaviour frequently refuses to conform to models created by researchers. Family Planning Perspectives, 1999, 31(5), 248-249.
• Is academic sociology politically obsolete? Contemporary Sociology, 1999, 28(1), 5-10.
• Sex, social hygiene and the double-edged sword of social reform. Theory and Sociology, 1998, 27, 601-634.
• Does liberalism cause sex (with J. Mauldon). American Prospect, 1996 (winter).
• The effects of sex education on contraceoptive behavior (with J. Mauldon). Family Planning Perspectives. 1996 (March)
• When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex—and Sex Education—Since the Sixties (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) (ISBN 978-0-393-34996-4)
• Young Single Mothers and 'Welfare Reform' in the United States. In A. Daguerre and C. Nativel (eds) When Children become Parents: Welfare State Responses to Teenage Pregnancy (with C. Carter. Polity Press, 2006)
• Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences (Harvard University Press, 2008)