A Genealogy of Puberty Science: Monsters, Abnormals, and Everyone Else

ISBN-13: 9780367661434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Pedro Pinto; Catriona MacLeod

Opis

A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical analytic, the authors trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Towards a history of the present

PART 1 PRECOCIOUS LITTLE MONSTERS

2. Child monstrosity and the dilemma of nature

3. The monster, the modest girl, and the masturbating boy

4. Accounting for the mature-immature body

PART 2 FROM BIOLOGICAL TO CULTURAL MONSTROSITIES

5. From the world of the naturalists to the first population studies

6. The biosocial reconfigured: Puberty onset and the emergence of epidemiological risk

PART 3 THE SURVEILLANCE OF ALL

7. A most dangerous condition: Puberty science and the surveillance of all

8. The birth of the ‘normal’ pubertal body (and its dilemmas)

9. Conclusion: Puberty in crisis

O autorze

Pedro Pinto is an independent science and technology studies scholar from Lisbon. His previous research work focused on post-feminist discourse, embodiment, and the industrialisation of sexual and gender difference.

Catriona Ida Macleod is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, SARChI Chair of Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction at Rhodes University, South Africa, and editor-in-chief of Feminism & Psychology.