Adolescence Chapter Summary

One of Hall’s greatest books, as talked about is, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education. In chapter seventeen of the book he writes about, adolescent girls and their education, and compares with the opposite sex. In the chapter we see that the adolescence in woman is looked at from a biological standpoint, a medical standpoint, Nubility of Educated Women, Fecundity of Educated Women, and then just simply education alone.
Strength, mortality, brain, senses, agility, mental traits, crime, disposition, variability, conservation, produce sexual differences. We look at differences such as marriage of educated women, best age of parenthood in mother and father, rape statics between females being rape in college compared to males being raped in college, and coeducational and the advantages and dangers for both male and females.
From the biological and anthropological standpoint, our modern knowledge or women shows that she has …show more content…
From the studies presented, it is shown that women’s health is affected through education. For those in college that studied hard, it was shown that they had some type of mental problem. That before they entered schooling they showed good health, that would later change and be affected by late night studying. We even see that a small portion had to drop out because of this mental illness that would occur. The idea that the process for surgery and reduction of mortality in women was more weighed out, instead of looking at way to prevent diseases to occur. However, that is what has changed the base study of woman, and now instead of looking at it from a surgical standpoint, the view it from a how to prevent the illness. Education is not only known to have an affect on mental illness of women, but also on the idea of when they will be “fit” for