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Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston

Martha H. Verbrugge 1988 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780198021803 (ebook)
  • 9780195051247 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • 1. The Etiology of Dis-ease: Life and Death in Middle-Class Boston, 1830-1860 (page 11)
  • 2. Moral Physiology and the Habits of a Healthy Life (page 28)
  • 3. "Know Thyself": The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity, 1848-1880 (page 49)
  • 4. In Private and In Public: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, 1880-1898 (page 81)
  • 5. Fitness of Body and Mind: Personal Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston (page 97)
  • 6. "Stronger in Body as well as in Mind": Physical Education at Wellesley College, 1875-1900 (page 139)
  • 7. "Veritable Crusaders": The Early Graduates of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, 1889-1900 (page 162)
  • Conclusion (page 192)
  • Notes (page 201)
  • Appendix (page 257)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 267)
  • Index (page 289)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 20.1 (Summer. 1989): 167-168 http://www.jstor.org/stable/204075
SH 23.2 (Winter. 1989): 420-421 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787903
JPHP 11.4 (Winter. 1990): 510-513 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3342931
HEQ 29.2 (Summer. 1989): 379-339 http://www.jstor.org/stable/368330
AHR 95.1 (Feb. 1990): 280-281 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2163168
ISIS 80.1 (Mar. 1989): 108-109 http://www.jstor.org/stable/234370
AJS 94.6 (May. 1989): 1473-1474 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780988
JAH 75.3 (Dec. 1988): 937-938 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780988
RAH 17.3 (Sept. 1989): 357-363 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702833
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