Teen Pregnancy

• Kristin Lukers. 1991. "Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy over Teen Pregnancy" in Skolnick & Skolnick, eds., Family in Transition 9th edition (in reading packet).

Gender and Youth

Gender, Race and Body Image

• Susan Bordo. 1993. "Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture" in Unbearable Weight (in reading packet).
• Becky W. Thompson. 1994. "Childhood Lessons: Culture, Race, Class, and Sexuality." Chapter 2 in A Hunger So Wide and So Deep (in reading packet).

• Eugenia Kaw. "'Opening' Faces: the Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women" in Nicole Sault, ed., Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations (in reading packet).

• Bust magazine.

Enforcing Masculinity

• Michael Messner. 1990. "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities" in Susan Ferguson, ed., Mapping the Social Landscape (in reading packet).
• Peter Lyman. 1987. "The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship: A Case Study of the Role of Sexist Jokes in Male Group Bonding" from Kimmel & Messner, eds., Men's Lives (in reading packet).

Gender in Dating Rituals

• Seventeen magazine.
• Dianne F. Herman. 1989. "The Rape Culture" in Jo Freeman, ed., Women: a Feminist Perspective, 4th edition (in reading packet).

• Midterm exam

Sexual Activity and Sexualities

Parental Control Over Sex

• State-by-state breakdown of laws requiring parental consent for abortion (in reading packet). Sources: www.positive.org, www.teenwire.com.
• State-by-state breakdown of legal age of consent to sexual activity (in reading packet). Source: www.ageofconsent.com.