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Girls, Adolescence and the Impact of Bodily Changes

This article presents the results of a study concerning the impact of physical changes accompanying female puberty. It examines the meanings these changes have for the girls themselves, as well as for their mothers and fathers. The hypothesis, essentially rooted in psychoanalytical theory, is that the reactions of mothers and fathers to the bodily changes of their daughter communicate messages about these changes that, in turn, impact on the girl’s perception and experience of her body. These messages are influenced by the often unconscious desires, fantasies and fears of the adults as well as by societal gender images. Depending on how adult care providers confront the psychic issues raised by their daughter’s adolescence and, in turn, how they interact with their daughter during her transition to adulthood, these psychic events may either serve to perpetuate societal gender images or offer a means of revising them.

Girls, Adolescence and the Impact of Bodily Changes

Urheber*in: Flaake, Karin

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Umfang
Seite(n): 201-212
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
European Journal of Women's Studies, 12(2)

Thema
Menstruation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Flaake, Karin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2005

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224787
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Flaake, Karin

Entstanden

  • 2005

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