Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930

by Margaret A. Lowe

Book Overview

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 Education, "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882745
• ISBN13: 9780801882746
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher