NEWS:

The newest Sociological Images essay to be published in Contexts magazine, The Social Control of Mothers, is now available.  The essay, drawing heavily on Elizabeth Armstrong’s book Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility, explores the imperfect relationship between pregnant women’s consumption of alcohol and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and asks whether controlling women’s behavior is really the best way to reduce the rate of these disorders. You can check out our earlier post on the topic, download the (more carefully composed) essay from Contexts, or send us a note at socimages@thesocietypages.org to ask for a copy.

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Finally, this is your monthly reminder that we’re on Twitter and Facebook.  If we’re lucky, we may just reach 10,000 friends sometime this March.  Who will be the 10,000th!?