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Adolescence, pregnancy and abortion : constructing a threat of degeneration

Title: Adolescence, pregnancy and abortion : constructing a threat of degeneration / Catriona Macleod.
Author: Macleod, Catriona.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Description

xi, 168 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book argues that the negativity surrounding early reproducion is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence. It traces the invention of 'adolescence and the imaginary wall that the notion constructs between young people and adults."--Cover.

Series Statement

Women and psychology

Uniform Title

Women and psychology

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Setting the scene -- Adolescence as transition? -- Conundrums : sex education, "teenage pregnancy", and decision-making in the context of abortion -- Constructing a threat of degeneration : the invention of and research practices concerning the "social problem" of "teenage pregnancy" -- Young women and legalized abortion : the new "social problem" -- Othering : race, culture and "teenage pregnancy"/abortion -- Managing the threat of degeneration -- From "teenage pregnancy" to unwanted pregnancy.

ISBN

9780415553391
0415553393
9780415553384
0415553385

LCCN

2010007376

OCLC

ocn664834990
664834990
SCSB-14692335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library