Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930
(Part of the Gender Relations in the American Experience Series)
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Winner of the Bridgewater State College Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award 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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801882745
ISBN13:9780801882746
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:222 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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