Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Girls at Puberty

Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

  • Book
  • © 1983

Overview

Editors:
  1. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

    1. Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA
      Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Anne C. Petersen

    1. Department of Individual and Family Studies, College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Biological Aspects of Puberty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Physical and Biological Aspects of Puberty

      • Michelle P. Warren
      Pages 3-28

    3. Fatness, Puberty, and Fertility The Effects of Nutrition and Physical Training on Menarche and Ovulation

      • Rose E. Frisch
      Pages 29-49

    4. Pubertal Changes in Adolescence

      • William A. Daniel Jr.
      Pages 51-71

    5. Menarche and Dysmenorrhea

      • Jerry R. Klein, Iris F. Litt
      Pages 73-88

    6. Pituitary Desensitization with a Long-Acting Luteinizing-Hormone-Releasing Hormone Analog

      • Gordon B. Cutler Jr., Florence Comite, Jean Rivier, Wylie W. Vale, D. Lynn Loriaux, William F. Crowley Jr.
      Pages 89-102

  3. Psychological Aspects of Puberty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Alternative Constructions of Adolescent Growth

      • Margaret S. Faust
      Pages 105-125

    3. The Psychological Significance of Pubertal Change

      • Maryse H. Tobin-Richards, Andrew M. Boxer, Anne C. Petersen
      Pages 127-154

    4. The Experience of Menarche from a Developmental Perspective

      • Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Diane N. Ruble
      Pages 155-177

    5. Pubertal Change and Cognition

      • Anne C. Petersen
      Pages 179-198

  4. Sociocultural Aspects of Puberty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Intensification of Gender-Related Role Expectations during Early Adolescence

      • John P. Hill, Mary Ellen Lynch
      Pages 201-228

    3. The Social and Psychological Effects of Puberty on White Females

      • Roberta G. Simmons, Dale A. Blyth, Karen L. McKinney
      Pages 229-272

    4. Sociosexual Development of Preadolescents

      • Ouida E. Westney, Renee R. Jenkins, Constance A. Benjamin
      Pages 273-300

    5. A Bargaining Theory of Menarcheal Responses in Preindustrial Cultures

      • Karen Ericksen Paige
      Pages 301-322

  5. The Study of Puberty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Future Directions in Research

      • Renee R. Jenkins
      Pages 325-338

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 339-341
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The publication of this volume at this time appears particularly auspi­ cious. Biological, psychological, and social change is greater during the pubertal years than at any other period since infancy. While the past two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of productive research on the first years of life, until recently research on adolescence, and particularly on puberty and early adolescence, has lagged substantially behind. This book provides encouraging evidence that things are changing for the better. Considered separately, the individual chapters in this book include important contributions to our growing knowledge of the biological mechanisms involved in pubertal onset and subsequent changes, as well as of the psychological and social aspects of these changes, both as con­ sequences and determinants. In this regard, the book clearly benefits from the breadth of disciplines represented by the contributors, includ­ ing developmental endocrinology, adolescent medicine, pediatrics, psy­ chology, and sociology, among others.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA

    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Department of Individual and Family Studies, College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Anne C. Petersen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Girls at Puberty

  • Book Subtitle: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

  • Editors: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Anne C. Petersen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0354-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41144-1Published: 31 July 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0356-3Published: 01 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0354-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 342

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Sexual Behavior

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation