Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930

(Part of the Gender Relations in the American Experience Series)

by Margaret A. Lowe

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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. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read 1873 book Sex in Education, "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080187209X

ISBN13:9780801872099

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:222 Pages

Weight:0.96 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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Americas College & University Education & Reference Gay & Lesbian History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Schools & Teaching Social Science Social Sciences Women in History Women's Studies

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