Looking Good College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930 |
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| Author:
| Lowe, Margaret A. |
| Series title: | Gender Relations in the American Experience Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8274-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......