Monday, November 15, 2010

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Menarche: "Girls should read fairy tales, not to defend himself from wolves" or the urge to control the bodies of young women.

By Beatriz Sotomayor

teachers, teachers and pediatricians feel that every time menarche occurs earlier in the lives of women, however research indicates that the age of first menstruation has remained relatively constant for the past 50 years.

There are many many who consider women to bleed one week out of four is an essential difference between the genders. Menstruation serves as a common container for social anxiety about female sexuality.

menstrual taboos in fact not the most durable y resistentes entre las culturas, y subrayan el miedo masculino hacia la sexualidad femenina.

A diferencia de otros cambios puberales graduales, la menarca es una transición dramática de niña a mujer. Las adolescentes estadounidenses contemporáneas ven la menarca como una “crisis higiénica” que tiene una cierta técnica y utensilios de manejo, en vez de un proceso de maduración; sin embargo la menarca señala la llegada de la fertilidad reproductiva y la sexualidad adulta.

Aunque la menarca ocurre relativamente tarde en el proceso of puberty has long been used as a marker for this because it occurs suddenly and is memorable.

Where does the term adolescence?

Adolescence is a modern invention, G. Stanley Hall coined the term "adolescence" to describe the emerging youth culture in the United States in early 1900. The need to control sexual urges adolescents was the organizing principle behind the act of defining adolescence to Hall, and was the legacy for psychologists, sociologists, physicians and politicians concerned with the management of adolescents. And when they have expressed concern about the "teen sexuality", they refer mainly to the sexuality of young people, because in many ways being a teenage girl is being over-identified as being sexualized.

At present, adolescent sexuality has remained "social problem", our culture has discredited adolescent sexuality, cauterizing in the minds of young people associated with it fears : sexually transmitted diseases, loss of educational opportunities, and teen pregnancy.

The "growing cultural panic" about teen pregnancy (evident in research agendas, the media and social programs) has served to make women especially young black and Latino poor me, "sources public anxiety and sources of social control "and had to consider that control is a form of violence.

Sexuality of women living in poor and urban areas of USA, has been problematized particularly in research agendas and the media. Tolman has noted that "the assumption is not said that some young, poor, of color, are more urban-sex (or directly hypersexual) and therefore are at higher risk of negative results is reproduced through intense study and surveillance to which these young women are subjected ".

Although the negative consequences of teen pregnancy have not been strongly supported by research. The "myth" of an "epidemic" of teen pregnancy has not come from sociological research, however, reactive fear of "children having children" has led to recent public policy decades.

social anxiety about the sexuality of young women has inhibited the ability of young women to build healthy and positive way with their sexuality in their identities. Adolescent girls and girls have been ambiguous cultural messages about their sexuality and identity. The barrage of sexualized images of teens in the media has sold sex as fun and important. However, schools have socialized children to view sex as a dangerous game in which men are aggressors and women are victims.

Puberty in general (and menarche in particular) has been a gateway to adolescent sexuality. The meaning of menarche is entwined with cultural beliefs about female adolescent sexuality and all the research on puberty should be evaluated with this in mind.

Teens must navigate through the conflicting messages they receive about their bodies in developing and emerging sexuality, and much of the existing research with its emphasis on control has not helped the girls, or their parents to navigate through these treacherous waters.

Research into early adulthood has highlighted social anxieties about emerging female sexuality. These fears have been deployed in the academic literature and media. Eg TIME magazine in a recent article pointed out that girls should be "reading fairy tales, not fending off wolves." This feeling has been reinforced dual cultural stereotypes: the belief that children are (or should be) asexual, and the sight of men as sexual predators and women as helpless victims.

So

as educators (as), political (as), and parents have worked to control the sexuality of young people. The girls have struggled to determine how and when they are in control of their changing bodies.

Source:

- Rachel Blumstein Posner (2006) Early menarche: A Review of Research on Trends in Timing, Racial Differences, Etiology and Psychosocial Consequences. Sex Roles (2006) 54:315-322.

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