college women and body image, 1875-1930
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lowe, Margaret A.
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4786 - B
- Thesaurus
- uiterlijk, vrouwenlichamen, vrouwbeelden, vrouwelijkheid, studenten, hoger onderwijs, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Investigating the increasing importance of body image to college women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, the author traces changes in social and scientific ideals of female health and beauty, notions of femininity, women's attitudes toward their own bodies, and the importance of race in this process.