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Author Roberts, Celia, 1968- author.

Title Puberty in crisis : the sociology of early sexual development / Celia Roberts
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents 1. Puberty in crisis? Sex, reproduction and the loss of future -- 2. Articulating findings, feelings and figurations: methods and approaches -- 3. Telling histories: the scientific study of puberty -- 4. Defining early onset puberty: troubling findings about sexual development -- 5. Causes and explanations: genes, fat, toxins and families -- 6. Consequences of early development: sex, drugs and shortness -- 7. Treatments: pharmaceuticals, sex and suffering -- Conclusion: folding puberty differently: changing findings, feeling and figurations
Summary "Puberty has long been recognised as a difficult and upsetting process for individuals and families, but it is now also being widely described as in crisis. Reportedly occurring earlier and earlier as each decade of the twenty-first century passes, sexual development now heralds new forms of temporal trouble in which sexuality, sex/gender and reproduction are all at stake. Many believe that children are growing up too fast and becoming sexual too early. Clinicians, parents and teachers all demand something must be done. Does this out-of-time development indicate that children's futures are at risk or that we are entering a new era of environmental and social perturbation? Engaging with a diverse range of contemporary feminist and social theories on the body, biology and sex, Celia Roberts urges us to refuse a discourse of crisis and to rethink puberty as a combination of biological, psychological and social forces"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Puberty -- Social aspects
Precocious puberty -- Social aspects
Hormones, Sex.
Precocious puberty.
Puberty, Precocious
Gonadal Steroid Hormones
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Hormones, Sex
Puberty
Pubertät
Persönlichkeitsentwicklung
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
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