Puberty in Crisis by Celia Roberts
Puberty today is understood to be in crisis: many claim children are growing up too fast and becoming sexual too early. This book critically explores cultural, scientific and medical debates around contemporary changes to pubertal timing, using examples from news media, environmental campaigns and paediatric science and medicine.
'With characteristic, clear-eyed style, Celia Roberts negotiates the shoals of biological and social reductionism to give us a rigorous, richly entangled account of contemporary pubertyShe clarifies the anxieties around the 'precocious girl' and identifies the many tributaries that feed the moral panic around feminine sexual development. This book should be read by anybody interested in a critical account of girlhood, the life course, sexuality, and the ways the biological and the social collaborate in the history of the body.' Catherine Waldby, Professorial Future Fellow, University of Sydney
'Puberty in Crisis is an important book which deftly navigates the complexities of sexed embodiment as situated, temporal and produced through notions of class, race, ethnicity and gender. The analytical matrix of 'findings, feelings and figurations' keeps multiple narratives of the 'crisis' of puberty in play, and urges an approach which can embrace diversity in sexual development. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written and brilliant in insight, it surely establishes Celia Roberts as one of feminist science studies' brightest stars.' Barbara L. Marshall, Trent University
'Puberty in Crisis is an important book which deftly navigates the complexities of sexed embodiment as situated, temporal and produced through notions of class, race, ethnicity and gender. The analytical matrix of 'findings, feelings and figurations' keeps multiple narratives of the 'crisis' of puberty in play, and urges an approach which can embrace diversity in sexual development. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written and brilliant in insight, it surely establishes Celia Roberts as one of feminist science studies' brightest stars.' Barbara L. Marshall, Trent University
Celia Roberts is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. She is a long-standing editor of the journal Feminist Theory and author of Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107104723 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107104726 |
| Title | Puberty in Crisis |
| Author | Celia Roberts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2015-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
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