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Able-Bodied Womanhood

By Verbrugge, Martha H.

Able-Bodied Womanhood Medicine

Able-Bodied Womanhood

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This study concerns itself with the relationship between popular health and social conditions in middle-class Boston from 1830-1900. Women's lives, in particular, reveal the social significance of ideas about health during that period. Against the backdrop of national debate about female duties and well-being this book follows middle-class women as they learned about physiology and hygiene through popular health literature, voluntary clubs, and schools in Boston. The pursuit of health also enabled middle-class women to explore the nature of womanhood, and to discover both conventional and new meanings.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
308
Release Date:
1988-01-21
Publication Date:
1997-06-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195051246
ISBN13:
9780195051247
Weight:
568 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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