Menstruation In Girls Research Articles

A soma anômala: a questão do suplemento no xamanismo e menstruação Ikpeng

Este ensaio pretende examinar vários aspectos da sociocosmologia dos Ikpeng, povo ameríndio do sul da Amazônia. Através de um esforço de absorção de vários conceitos ikpeng em seu vocabulário analítico, ele explora a convergência das noções de afeto (não de relação) e de devir (não de transformação) desse povo em um plano sociopolítico composto por uma mistura de povos e espécies (não de pessoas). Nesse plano, o xamã figura como uma anomalia de espécie, posição alcançada pela sua exposição à morte múltipla, versão radicalizada da auto-intoxicação do sujeito ao longo da vida. Sustentadas por uma cosmologia animista/xamânica, tais concepções se provam incompatíveis com os modelos humanistas do sociopolítico predominantes na antropologia contemporânea. Seguir essa linha de pensamento indígena expõe também uma modelagem não-orgânica de diferença sexual intrínseca às composições transespecíficas envolvidas nos rituais ikpeng, mas cujos primeiros pontos de emergência são a iniciação xamânica dos meninos e a menstruação das meninas.

L'apprentissage des odeurs chez les Waanzi : note de recherche

This paper provides a first account about how the olfactory environment is learned in Ba-wanzi children, a Bantu group living in the south-eastern part of Gabon. Different aspects of the Wanzi olfactory culture are surveyed, especially rituals, prescriptions and proscriptions around birth and breast-feeding, around initiation in boys and first menstruation in girls. The socialisation of olfaction is illustrated in the everyday settings and activities (oral literature ; foraging, fishing and hunting). The rich odour lexicon of this group is briefly presented, with the suggestion that several of these terms represent « basic odour terms » in the sense of Berlin and Kay.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Clinical & Diagnostic Procedures in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Part B: Gynaecology. Edited by E. Malcolm Symonds and Frederick P. Zustan. 1984. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York and Basel. Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Contraception Update. Edited by J. R. Newton. Volume II. No. 3. December, 1984 Fertility Control. Edited by Stephen L. Corson, Richard J. Derman, and Louise B. Tyrer, Little, Brown and CoEverywoman — a Gynaecological Guide for Life, Professor Derek Llewellyn‐Jones. Faber & Faber. Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, March 1985. Cancer of the Cervix: Diagnosis and Treatment. Edited by Albert Singer. W.B. Saunders Company. Aids to Undergraduate Obstetrics and Gynaecology. C.E.R. Sinclair and J.B. Webb. Churchill Livingstone, Pp. 191 with index. Multiple Choice Tutor Basic Sciences in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Second Series, V. R. Tindall. High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery. Fernando Arias. Published by The C. B. Mosby Co., St. Louis. Gynaecology by Ten Teachers. Edited by: T.L.T. Lewis, Stanley G. Clayton & G.D. Pinker. 14th Edition, 1985. E. Arnold, and Co., London Role of Medroxyprogesterone in Endocrine‐Related Tumours Volume 3. Edited by A. Pellegrini, G. Robustelli Delia Cuna, F. Pannuti, P. Pouillart, W. Jonat Period. All about menstruation for girls and women. Authors: Jo Ann Gardner‐Loulan, Bonnie Lopez and Marcia Quack‐enbush.Pelvic Floor Anatomy and the Surgery of Pulsion EnterocoeleRobert F. Zacharin, 1985, Sprtnger‐Verlag, Vienna In Vitro pet‐fusion of Human Placental Tissue. Edited by H. Schneder and J. Dances. S. Karger, Basal. 189 pages with index Current Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynaecology 8. H. J. Huisjes— Spontaneous Abortion. Churchill Livingstone

Longitudinal Correlation Analysis of Standing Height and Intelligence

Intercorrelations of 10 successive years of measurement of height and intelligence are presented for separate samples of girls and boys. These correlations are based on data originally gathered and published by Dearborn, Rothney, and Shuttleworth as the Harvard Growth Study. Sample size varies from correlation to correlation, but most of those for girls are based on samples of 500-700 and those for boys on samples of 400-500. The intercorrelations of each of the 2 variables over 10 occasions do not differ appreciably by sex, but there are significant differences between the sexes in the cross-correlations. For the sample of girls there is clear evidence that individual differences in height at 8 and 9 anticipate later individual differences in intelligence. Correlations of early height with intelligence at 11 and 12 are especially high (.40). There is little evidence for similar anticipation of intelligence by height for boys. Correlates for both height and intelligence are found in socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and age of first menstruation for girls. Only the last of these contributes to the explanation of the changes in the cross-correlations with age. Analyses of sitting-height correlations with intelligence indicate that length of the long bones of the legs is also related to the observed pattern of correlations.

Boys' circumcision and girls' puberty rites among the Swahili of Mafia Island, Tanzania

Opening ParagraphIn the north of Mafia Island, the rites surrounding the circumcision of boys and the first menstruation of girls are no longer, if indeed they ever were, universally performed. This article attempts to explain this situation, and in so doing, draws on some of Turner's work on symbolism. In particular, his distinction between different levels of meaning expressed by symbols—the exegetical, the operational and the positional (1962)—is followed in a discussion of the political implications of performance or rejection of the rites.

Correction of prognathism in a 9-year-old girl: Surgical-orthodontic teamwork

Surgical-orthodontic correction of mandibular prognathism in a 9-year-old girl is described. Surgical procedures in the form of overlapping oblique osteotomies of the rami are usually not done until the age of 16 in boys and 2 years after initial menstruation in girls. Otherwise, a second operation may be necessary. Consequently, we accept younger patients for treatment only if the patient and the parents understand and accept this possibility in advance.

The middle school child in contemporary society

Before 1950, boys and girls from ten to fourteen years of age were treated as if they were children, but ever since this date, they have been treated more and more as adults. They are pushed harder in their school work and are increasingly exposed to sexual stimulation through literature, movies, and television. Some people argue that young people are actually older now than their parents were at the same age because they have developed more rapidly mentally and biologically. There is evidence that this is true to a limited degree. The age of first menstruation for girls in this country is now about nine months earlier, on the average, than at the beginning of the century. Presumably, this is due to a diet richer in vitamins and calcium than that which boys and girls received in the 19th century. Also, boys mature about three-quarters of a year earlier than they did 70 years ago.