Looking Good College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930

Name: Looking Good College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930
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ISBN: 9780801882746

ISBN-10: 0801882745

ISBN-13: 9780801882746

Edition: 2003

Authors: 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 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. For…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.682



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ideals and Expectations: Race, Health, and Femininity



Fit for Academia: Gaining Pounds, Vigor, and Virtue



Body, Spirit, and Race: Embodying Respect



The College Look: Campus Fashions



Modern Sexuality: New Women, Coeds, and Flappers



The New Shape of Science: Diets and Dieting on Campus


Conclusion


Notes Essay on Sources


Index