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Auteur(s) : Roberts, Celia (1947-....)
Titre(s) : Puberty in crisis [Texte imprimé] : the sociology of early sexual development / Celia Roberts
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-287 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 241-278
"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"
Sujet(s) : Puberté précoce -- Société
Puberté -- Société
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107104723. - ISBN 1107104726 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44397399t
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