Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful : An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870

Name: Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful : An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870
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ISBN: 9780865545618

ISBN-10: 0865545618

ISBN-13: 9780865545618

Edition: 1st

Authors: Jan Todd

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"In examining the course of the debate between the philosophies of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century, several important conclusions have been reached. First, a much more diverse spectrum of women's exercise existed in the antebellum era than is currently described in modern historical texts. Second, several exercise systems had significant links to an ideal of womanhood - called in this text Majestic Womanhood - which directly competed with the prevailing construct of the ideology of True Womanhood articulated by historian Barbara Welter. Third, purposive training mattered in the lives of American women influencing them physically,…

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List price: $39.95
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Majestic Womanhood vs. "Baby Faced Dolls": The Debate Over Women's Exercise


"Souls of Fire in Iron Hearts": The 1820s Gymnastics Revolution


William Fowle's Monitorial School for Girls: The First American Gymnastics Experiment


The Literature of Calisthenics


"I Practice Calisthenics Every Day and Like It Quite Well": Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke, and American Calisthenics


Becoming Catharine Beecher: Antebellum Proponent of Women's Exercise


Bigger Bodies - Better Brains: Phrenology and the Health Lift


Dio Lewis and the New Gymnastics: Birth of a System


Textbooks for Majestic Womanhood: The Literary Legacy of Dio Lewis


The Influence of Dio Lewis: "Courage and Strength to Take Up the Battle"


"Reaping the Reward": The Quest for Health by Lizzie Morley and Her Sisters


Methodology


Bibliography


Index