Kristin Luker writes for San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2012

Rather, for those of us who want families and careers, love and work, the question is whether women in this country (and the world) can be fully human, or be reduced to our ovaries and our genitals.

he New York Times, November 16, 2011 by Laurie Abraham
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/teaching-good-sex.html?pagewanted=all

And for a “brief, fragile period” in the 1970s and early 1980s, writes Luker, a professor of sociology and of law at U.C. Berkeley, “opinion leaders of almost every stripe believed sex education was the best response to the twin problems of teenage pregnancy and H.I.V. AIDS.”

The New York Times, January 31, 2010 by Ross Douthat
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/opinion/01douthat.html?scp=1&sq=luker&st=cse

In “When Sex Goes to School,” her thoughtful history of the sex education debate, the sociologist Kristin Luker concluded that it is “surprisingly difficult to show that sex education programs do in fact increase teenagers’ willingness to protect themselves from pregnancy and/or disease.”

Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2009 by Kristin Luker
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-luker22-2009jul22,0,7035500.story

The “staff” lurking in the background of the Cooter and Edlin Op-Ed article are disproportionately women and people of color, and they work for wages even further below the prevailing market because they lack the bargaining power of professors and the ability to pull up stakes to move to better options. More important, many of them work at UC because they have a moral commitment to what the university system represents at its best: a chance for a better future for individuals and for communities. Yet their contributions are often invisible precisely because of who they are.