The Menstrual Period When little girls are in the process of growing into women, there are certain changes that take place. The first major change that will take place is puberty. Puberty is a stage in life when girls will begin to mature both mentally and physically. The physical aspect of maturation will be changes of your body, such as, growing breast, growing body hair, widening of hips, weight and height gain. Puberty takes place at different times for different people, and takes longer for some than it does for others. Puberty is often a hard time, emotionally, especially with female, because of uncertainty and the drastic changes of the body. The reason that young girls begin going through puberty is because of hormones. Hormones are chemicals that are in the body, that are released when the brain tells them that it is time for the body to change, and grow. Hormones will play a big role in the way your body functions for the rest of your life. But now we will focus on how certain hormones work together to make us all beautiful women. Since you were born, you...
Overviewing our information, there is evidence of ethical wrongs and rights when considering sexual reassignment treatments for minors. Also, there are multiple options to choose from when transitioning and risks and gains that come with each. As we read from Dr. Kaufman and Dr. Beaver, the natural effects of puberty are irreversible while the effects of puberty blockers and hormones are reversible. Then from Dr. McHugh, gender dysphoria belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body and should be treated in other ways than blockers, hormones, or
In the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the role of the female characters Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle find themselves in conflict with society’s expectations of them. However, they each negotiate the conflict and resolve it. By examining Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle’s roles, one can contemplate how they went about resolving the issue.
The teenage year is the time when the body starts producing sex hormones and goes through a major growth spurt. This is the period when
Puberty is considered to start at age 11 years and end at about 15 to 17 years in girls (American Mdical Association, 2001). Hence, when analysing Tina’s situation from an Eriksonian perspective, it could be said she is an 11 year old pubescent undergoing the competency versus inferiority stage of development (Walter, 2011).
Women and gender studies contribute greatly to our understanding of the social and cultural world we inhabit. Studying the complex issues of this field has instituted many key insights. Two major insights that positively affected our society are the awareness through learning and through this awareness activism that can ensue.
Considering the historical micrcosm surrounding The Story of Menstruation one might begin to imagine life for teen girls of the late 1940s - noting the high standards for feminine perfomativity and the expectation of consumerism. The closing line from the film remarks “all life is built on cycles and the menstrual cycle is one normal and natural part of nature’s eternal plan for passing on the gift of life.” This statement is overlayed upon visuals of an adolescent girl growing up and cycling through various stages of life, but ends with “nature’s eternal plan” which according to Disney and Kotex is marriage. This brief visual display bookends the short film and establishes the notion that marriage is as normal and expected as one’s menstrual
Early puberty can mean looking like and being treated as an adult while still feeling the same inside. The opposite can also happen if an individual develops later than others in their peer group.
According to Gross (2004), adolescence is generally considered to begin with puberty, the process that leads to sexual maturity or fertility- the ability to reproduce. Adolescence lasts from about age 11 or 12 until the late teens or early twenties, and it entails major, interrelated changes in all realms of development. The growing process of adolescence covers stages of physical development and cognitive development. The physical changes are controlled by hormones that affecting adolescent growth is present in trace amounts from fetal life. Male and female hormones are present in members of both sexes, but males have more of the hormones called androgens, the most important which is testosterone and female have more hormones called oestrogens and progesterone Craig G.J (1992). During early adolescence, different parts of the body develop at varying rates. Next, the cognitive changes refer to the development of formal operational thought. It requires the ability to formulate, test and evaluate hypothesis. Moreover, adolescents also show an increasing ability to plan and think ahead. Another cognitive ability acquired is the metacognitive ability to think about thinking where teenagers learn to examine and consciously alter their thought
Early maturation for girls tends to be more negative, they feel more uncomfortable and different than their friends. They also seem to seek attention from older guys, which leads them into bad decision-making to try to please the older guy. On the positive side early maturation on a girl can have them feeling sexy and more attractive which gives them more confidence.
This analysis will examine focal points in the movie, The Day I Became a Woman, written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The movie is three separate stories of females in separate stages of life. Part one is a young girl transitioning into womanhood. The second part is a married woman defying her husband’s wishes for happiness. The third and final story is of a rich old widow, celebrating the end of her life. The lives of these women do not appear to intertwine, but their fates are parallel as women in Iranian society.
Society makes being a girl harder than it should be. Growing up and transitioning from girl to woman is harder than it looks, and often goes unrecognized. From the basic small things like dealing with boys and high school to the human body girls don’t get the credit they deserve because they have it harder. Dealing with all the social issues, science and knowledge and how the world works, girls deal with growing up and growing old harder.
During puberty, some changes happen only to girls, and some happen only to boys. What type of changes can are expected to happen to girls? First of all, the girl's breasts will begin to grow and get fuller. Sometimes, one breast may grow faster than the other. Some girls' breasts grow more rapidly than other girl's. Some girls' breasts remain small throughout their adult lives. Also during puberty, the girl...
Puberty is a time that every individual must endure to progress into physical and mental adulthood. This time consists of many awkward moments, struggles with identity, and a desire to test the boundaries. Technically, all puberty is, is the period in which the body has become capable of sexual reproduction. That is a very general fact about puberty. Many other elements come into play during this time that have been consistent for quite some time (R, H, J, …, n.d.). Puberty is also happening during most individual’s secondary education years and can sneak into the classroom through the students’ habits and behaviors. This time of cognitive, physical, and emotional transition has observed trends, can be affected by life stressors,
...otionally act more like one. At this stage puberty takes place for both males and females, physically both bodies change in height, weight, and growth of pubic hair and the start of menstruation for females, (Tanner, 1962). There is a strong effect on the families or parents of the adolescent child as they don’t see the child as much. This is due to the adolescent child or teen beginning to strive for independence doing this by spending less time with their family and more with friendships, (Global Post, 2013).
Adolescence is one of the most fascinating and complex transitions in the life span. Puberty is a period between childhood and adulthood, during which a growth spurt occurs, secondary sexual characteristics appear, fertility is achieved, and psychological changes take place. Puberty occurs at different ages for adolescents. Puberty generally occurs around the age of 9 to 14 for boys and 8 to 13 for girls. However, sometimes puberty occur early for some adolescents which psychologists have characterized as pubertal timing (Dubas, Graber, Peterson, 2014, p. 580). Pubertal timing is whether an adolescent's pubertal task is happening on time, early, or late compared to his or her peers (Dubas, Graber, Peterson, 2014, p. 580). According to some psychologist, adolescents who experience early puberty timing, usually deal with psychological, medical and and academic problems (Mendle, Harden, Brooks-Gunn, Graber, 2010, p. 1341).