Able-Bodied Womanhood : Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195051246
ISBN-13
9780195051247
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 17th, 1988
Print length
314 Pages
Weight
524 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.80 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Public health & preventive medicine
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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 the women to explore the nature of womanhood, and discover the meanings.
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.
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