Outline 11 (3/10/98)
Announcements
Class Business
Masculinities the Hidden Message
Masculinity and Disability, Work, Alternate Roles
Teen Pregnancy Debate
(subtext: gender and poverty; the role of the state in controlling gender/sexuality; social change and the family; interpreting data for political ends)
What are the facts of the case? Or, what do we know?
Increase in unmarried fertility
Racial differences.
Births to teen mothers
Births to which teens?
What facts don't we know?
What are the explanations? What is the problem?
The role of the state (summary of Chapter 3 in Luker)
Comstock Act of 1873
The War on Poverty
Teenagers: Untimely fertility
Conservatives of the 1980s: The moral legislators
Teenage Parents and the Future
Publicly Funded Contraception
Legalized abortions
Sex Education
Increase Opportunities (day care, work fare, role models, mentoring, etc.)