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Able-Bodied Womanhood Martha H. Verbrugge (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Bucknell University)

Able-Bodied Womanhood By Martha H. Verbrugge (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Bucknell University)

Summary

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.

Able-Bodied Womanhood Summary

Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston by Martha H. Verbrugge (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Bucknell University)

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.

Able-Bodied Womanhood Reviews

'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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NPB9780195051247
9780195051247
0195051246
Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston by Martha H. Verbrugge (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Bucknell University)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
1988-03-17
308
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