Menarche

Many young girls are forced to marry before they are able to complete school. The relationship between menstruation and child marriage is clear: menstruation indicates the ability to reproduce and passage into womanhood, which is in turn taken as a signal that a marriage should take place. This means that girls who have not yet reached high school are made to set aside their education in exchange for starting a family. In Gender and Development, the authors highlight one study that found that in South India half of girls are withdrawn from school when they attain menarche. The assumed reasons for this are that menstruation means preparedness for marriage, and also that there is danger in being an unmarried pubescent girl (Mahon and Fernandes, 104). One study in Delhi, India, found that on average, girls were married around age 15. The same study noted that if a girl was married before beginning menstruation and the marriage was consummated immediately afterward, she believed that the onset of her menses was triggered by the sex she had engaged in (Garg, et al, 19). If we want to reduce the amount of child marriages occurring in low-income countries, it is important to change attitudes about menstruation and stress that menstruating should not be the end of a young girl’s education or her…

Physical changes that produce sexual and reproductive maturation, in girls, towards adulthood, though natural and normal, present many challenges to young girls as they enter the age of puberty (Adeyemi, 2014). According to Adeyemi (2014), survey data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals that thelarche, or breast development, in girls from the United States who were African American, Mexican American, or Caucasian, began, on average at 9.86 years old. Pubarche, or…

Menarche within secular America is commonly understood as a time of transition and transformation. Colloquial understandings perpetuate that menarche, due to its biological indication of fertility, is the age of transition from girlhood to womanhood. Menarche, then becomes a time of social tension, possibly even crisis, which in many other cultures, communities and contexts necessitates ritual. But the time of menarche in America appears to be ritual-less. Yet, our actions, texts, and…

contemporary standards concerning female sexuality and feminism. The culture in which she was raised informed many behavioral decisions she made throughout mate selection, pregnancy and childrearing. With little ability to compare her own female experiences to those of her somewhat absent mother, Carolyn worked closely with her father, husband and friends to inform herself on life changes she would have to make to accommodate her changing body. Her values and style of parenting evolved as a…

superheroines face, there is an evolution that they encounter. This evolution reveals how the sexualization of the female superheroes came about. In “Menarche and the (Hetero) Sexualization of The Female Body” by Janet Lee, the author differs by focusing on women’s menarche and how it is intertwined with the women’s sexuality in the male dominated society. Menarche is the first menstrual cycle in women. Usually, women, from different parts of the world, have been clouded by negative attitudes…

Herlyn-werner-wunderlich syndrome – A case report of 2 patient ABSTRACT Herlyn-Werner-wunderlich syndrome is a rare mullerian duct anomaly also known as obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal anomaly (OHVIRA). It is a complex of structural abnormalities of female urogenital tract. Patients are usually asymptomatic until menarche. After menarche patients present with acute abdominal pain. During embryogenesis, the Mullerian (paramesonephric) ducts represent the primordial components of the…

Many North American Indian cultures celebrate the coming-of-age of their members. Some might be punctuated celebrations, occurring over a period of days as recognition for their aging, while others might last for years. One common marker for young girls is the arrival at menarche, a biological marker of aging (Markstrom, 1). Puberty is a time in a young woman’s life that is encompassed by insecurity, awkwardness, judgment, and for some, pride. The Apache Tribe has a different approach to girls…

Before there are any physical signs, the body gets ready for changes by an increase in adrenal androgens from the adrenal glands which contributes to pubic and armpit hair (Sigelman 143). The body also produces increased amounts of gonadal hormones—androgens and testosterone in males and estrogen in females. For females, the most dramatic event that appears as an advancement towards sexual maturation is the menarche—the first menstruation. Menstruation is the process of shedding the lining of a…

adolescents are most likely to experience the changes as the physical growth developed along with emotional and social development. (healthychildren, 2015) The adolescent will experience the stages of puberty, accompanies with changes in personality. As the age increases, there will be changes in the structure and function of various parts of the body At this stage, adolescents are more likely to develop secondary sex characteristics, along with the reproductive organs. The age of puberty…

“Production of hormones that triggers the start of adolescence, have boys may developing feelings of anger and annoyance that are associated with higher hormone levels while in girls the emotions produced by hormone production are somewhat different as in higher levels of hormones are associated with anger and depression” (Feldman 344). In the past, girls tended to react to menarche with anxiety, today, however, society’s view of menstruation is more positive (Feldman 345). It is seen that…