Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verbrugge, Martha H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1988
Subjects:
Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-287) and index
Introduction; 1. The Etiology of Dis-ease: Life and Death in Middle-Class Boston, 1830-1860; 2. Moral Physiology and the Habits of a Healthy Life; 3. "Know Thyself": The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity, 1848-1880; 4. In Private and In Public: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, 1880-1898; 5. Fitness of Body and Mind: Personal Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston; 6. "Stronger in Body as well as in Mind": Physical Education at Wellesley College, 1875-1900; 7. "Veritable Crusaders": The Early Graduates of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, 1889-1900
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 297 p.)
ISBN:0195051246
1429400986
1601296746
9780195051247
9781429400985
9781601296740

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text