A Genealogy of Puberty Science

by Pedro Pinto, Catriona MacLeod

A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical analytic, Pinto and Macleod trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries. Offering a critical inquiry into the epistemological and political roots of our present pubertal complex, this book breaks the almost complete silence concerning puberty in critical theories and research about childhood and adolescence. Most strikingly, the book highlights the failure ​of ongoing medical debates on early puberty to address young people’s sexual and reproductive embodiment and citizenships. A Genealogy of Puberty Science will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of child and adolescent ​health research, critical psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, ​feminist and gender studies, ​medical history, science and technology studies, and sexualities and reproduction studies.

234 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2020

About the author

Executive Coach with a passion for writing - www.iamyourcoach.pt

Collaborated, as a literary critic, manager of the website and Facebook of the blog Letras e Cultura | All about literature, from February to October 2013.

We can read articles by this writer in P3 of the newspaper Público, as a contributor to the magazine eOptimismo, magazine ID '- Identidade among others.

Published works:
Amor Carnal (Editora Alfarroba, February 2012)

Participation in Collections:
Entre o Sono e o Sonho – Antologia de Poesia Contemporânea (Chiado Editora, March 2013)

Tecendo Nós - Antologia de Contos - (Goodreads - June 2013)

7 Pecados - Antologia de Contos (Pastelaria Estúdios Editora, November de 2013)

Entre o Sono e o Sonho - Antologia de Poesia Contemporânea (Chiado Editora, March 2014)

Patas, Pelos e Penas - Histórias do Fiel Amigo - Coletânea de Contos (Pastelaria Estúdios Editora, September 2014)

Aquela Viagem - Ler é viajar com os olhos - Coletânea de Contos (Papel D'Arroz Editora, September 2014

Speaks: English, Spanish, Italian , Portuguese, and French.

Writes: Portugues and English.