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

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

Lowe, Margaret A.

Paperback

Series: Gender Relations in the American Experience

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0801882745
ISBN13: 9780801882746
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2005
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

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, 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. For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's place in higher education almost exclusively in terms of her body and her health.

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