Dangerous Passage

Constance A. Nathanson is a Professor in the Department of Population Dynamics at the johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and is Director of the Hopkins Population Center.

• Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Sexuality and Social Control Part II: Private Behavior as a Public Problem 2. Setting the Stage, 1960-1972 3. Making the Revolution, 1972-1978 4. Countermovements, 1978-1987 Part III: American Women's Adolescence in Historical Context 5. The Transformation of Women's Adolescence, 1850-1960 6. Rescue Work to Social Work: Management of the Sexually Unorthodox Girl 7. Social Movements for Sexual Control, 1885-1920 Part IV: Aspects of the Contemporary Scene 8. Contemporary Models of Sexual and Reproductive Control 9. The Limits of Professional Power: Medicine as an Agency of Moral Reform 10. Private Behavior and Personal Control: Contraceptive Management Strategies of Adolescent Women Part V: Conclusion 11. Sexual Social Control and the Management of Social Change Notes Bibliography Index

"[A]n important and provocative discussion of current responses to teenage pregnancy in the United States...and it representative of the best of social problems scholarship. Dangerous Passage is meticulously researched, gracefully written, draws artfully on historical parallels, and in the tradition of this genre, shows the reader that a problem that has fundamentally social roots is nonetheless addressed-by all would-be 'owners'-at the level of individual behavior." -Carol Joffe, American Journal of Sociology "Nathanson's explanation is a complex and nuanced one that...explore[s] the organization of perspectives about teenage pregnancy and the political uses to which those constructions have been put... Her discussion of sexual visibility and concealment is brilliant... This should be required reading for policy makers and advocates in the area of family planning and human services." -Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts