Kristin Luker
Kristin Luker (born c. 1946) is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.[needs update] Earlier she was the Doris Stevens Chair of Women's Studies at Princeton University and professor at the University of California, San Diego.
Luker has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, and was invited to the White House by President Bill Clinton to discuss issues of politics and social policy. She has been awarded grants from the Spencer and Ford Foundations, as well as the Commonwealth Fund, and has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institute of Mental Health. Her interests include sexual and reproductive behavior, gender, and the relationship between gender and the history of the social sciences in the United States and elsewhere.[1]
Luker is the author of five books: Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (1975), Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984), Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996), When Sex Goes to School (2006) and Salsa Dancing Into the Social Sciences (2008) and many articles in scholarly journals.[1]
Her book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood received the
In her book Dubious Conceptions, Luker discusses the evolution of public perceptions about teenage pregnancy during the twentieth century, and argues that teenage pregnancy should be recognized not as a distinct
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)
- When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties" (W.W. Norton, 2006) (ISBN 0393329968)
- Salsa Dancing Into the Social Sciences: Research in an Age of Info Glut (Harvard University Press, 2010) (ISBN 0674048210)
- 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 contraceptive behavior (with J. Mauldon). Family Planning Perspectives. 1996 (March)
- 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)
References
- ^ a b c http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/luker/index.php[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Politics of Motherhood Revisited
- ^ Douthat, Ross (Jan 26, 2013). "Opinion | Divided by Abortion, United by Feminism". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2021 – via NYTimes.com.