Looking Good
College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. &quote;A girl could study and learn,&quote; Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read 1873 book Sex in Education, &quote;but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system.&quote; For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's plac…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4214-0181-2
- EAN: 9781421401812
- Produktnummer: 35553892
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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