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  • Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston

    Able-Bodied Womanhood by Verbrugge, Martha H.;

    Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 17 March 1988

    • ISBN 9780195051247
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages314 pages
    • Size 217x148x28 mm
    • Weight 524 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations numerous halftones and tables
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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.

    'an insightful, carefully-nuanced contribution to the history of American health reform'
    Susan E. Lederer, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Number 3, December 1990

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