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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Puberty in crisis? Sex, reproduction and the loss of future; A gendered and gendering problem; Hurried childhood and reproductive futures; Media accounts: the tragic loss of childhood; Popular environmentalist accounts: toxins and the loss of reproductivity; Public debate and policy discourses on early 'sexualisation'; Sexual futures: feminism and early development; What does it mean to invoke crisis?; The structure of this book
2 Articulating findings, feelings and figurations: approaches and resourcesTheorising bodies-in-the-making: drawing on science studies and the sociology of biomedicine; Engaging with biological bodies: corporeal and new materialist feminisms; Reading science: engaging 'the literature' as ethnographic informant; Figurations of childhood: drawing on feminist theory and cultural studies; Why bother with science and biomedicine in exploring early onset puberty?; 3 Telling histories: the scientific study of puberty; Adolesence and puberty in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The early science of growthBuilding the Tanner Scale: engaging the children of Harpenden; Scientific photography and the measuring of children's bodies; What to measure? Accuracy, choice and expertise; Who were the participants in the Harpenden Study?; Scaling up puberty: counting and accounting for differences; The Tanner Scale and charts travel; Criticisms of Tanner's sample; Revisiting Harpenden: the costs of participating in research; Making modern pubertal bodies; 4 Defining early onset puberty: troubling findings about sexual development; 'Normal' puberty
Counting pubertal bodies and establishing the limits of 'normal'Global flows; The tools and methods of measuring sexual development; Measuring and materialising race; Enacting social class; Making sex and sexed bodies; Feminism and science: experimental engagements; 5 Causes and explanations: genes, fat, toxins and families; Direct physical causes of precocious puberty; Biological actors: calculating genetic influence; Fat: troubling the biological/social divide; Toxins: the costs of living in a dirty world; Psycho-social explanations: stress, attachment and parenting; International adoption
Embodied histories of suffering: 'uncanny' connectionsBio-psycho-social entanglements: emergent ecologies; 6 Consequences of early onset puberty: sex, drugs and shortness; Longer-term risks: cancer; Longer-term risks: reduced adult height; Risk-taking: sex, drugs and vulnerability; Puberty, childhood adversity and survival; Theorising bio-psycho-social relations: puberty as folding; 7 Treatments: pharmaceuticals, sex and suffering; The 'Promise for Life'; Hormones, sex and the brain; Hormonal histories; Support for parents; Radical resistance and health activism