the Year." . Selected publications Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press, 1975) () Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (University of California Press, 1984) () Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of the Teenage Pregnancy Crisis (Harvard University Press, 1996) () 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) When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex—and Sex Education—Since the Sixties (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) () 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) References External links Berkeley sociology department page on Kristin Luker Living people American sociologists American women sociologists Feminist studies scholars UC Berkeley School of Law faculty 1946 births Princeton University faculty 21st-century American women