Looking good : college women and body image, 1875-1930
Bookreader Item Preview
Share or Embed This Item
- Publication date
- 2003
- Topics
- College, United States, Geschlechterrolle, Schönheitsideal, USA, Body image -- United States, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States, Women -- United States -- Identity, Women college students -- United States, Women -- history, Body Image, Beauty, Women -- psychology, Students -- history, Social Identification, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Body image, Women -- Identity, Women college students, Vrouwen, Studenten, Schoonheidsideaal, Lichaamsattitude, Frau, Zelfbeeld, Schonheitsideal
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press
- Collection
- inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
viii, 212 pages : 25 cm
"Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics worried that campus life might pose great hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read Sex in Education (1873), "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system." For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's place in higher education almost exclusively in terms of her body and her health." "For historian Margaret A. Lowe, this obsession offers one of the clearest windows onto the changing social and cultural meanings Americans ascribed to the female body between 1875 and 1930, when the "college girl" tested new ideas about feminine beauty, sexuality, and athleticism. In Looking Good, Lowe draws on student diaries, letters, and publications, as well as institutional records and accounts in the popular press. Examining the ways in which college women at Cornell University, Smith College, and Spelman College viewed their own bodies in this period, she contrasts white and black students, single-sex and coeducational schools, secular and religious environments, and Northern and Southern attitudes. Lowe here explores the process by which women emancipated themselves, challenging established notions and creating new models of "body image"."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Ideals and expectations : health and femininity, 1875-1910 -- Fit for academia : gaining pounds, vigor, and virtue, 1875-1910 -- Body, spirit, and race : embodying respect, 1890-World War I -- The college look : campus fashions, 1875-World War I -- New women, coeds, and flappers, 1910-1930 -- The new shape of science, 1910-1930
Self-Renewing 2017
"Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics worried that campus life might pose great hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read Sex in Education (1873), "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system." For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's place in higher education almost exclusively in terms of her body and her health." "For historian Margaret A. Lowe, this obsession offers one of the clearest windows onto the changing social and cultural meanings Americans ascribed to the female body between 1875 and 1930, when the "college girl" tested new ideas about feminine beauty, sexuality, and athleticism. In Looking Good, Lowe draws on student diaries, letters, and publications, as well as institutional records and accounts in the popular press. Examining the ways in which college women at Cornell University, Smith College, and Spelman College viewed their own bodies in this period, she contrasts white and black students, single-sex and coeducational schools, secular and religious environments, and Northern and Southern attitudes. Lowe here explores the process by which women emancipated themselves, challenging established notions and creating new models of "body image"."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Ideals and expectations : health and femininity, 1875-1910 -- Fit for academia : gaining pounds, vigor, and virtue, 1875-1910 -- Body, spirit, and race : embodying respect, 1890-World War I -- The college look : campus fashions, 1875-World War I -- New women, coeds, and flappers, 1910-1930 -- The new shape of science, 1910-1930
Self-Renewing 2017
- Access-restricted-item
- true
- Addeddate
- 2019-04-29 23:44:38
- Bookplateleaf
- 0002
- Boxid
- IA1191017
- Camera
- Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control)
- Collection_set
- trent
- External-identifier
- urn:lcp:lookinggoodcolle0000lowe:lcpdf:a6d67792-fcdd-41af-b0c4-4f7b4b2c234b
urn:lcp:lookinggoodcolle0000lowe:epub:2d477c73-4e50-4591-b61c-978c4bf4114d
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- lookinggoodcolle0000lowe
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t50h18m60
- Invoice
- 1652
- Isbn
- 080187209X
9780801872099
0801882745
9780801882746
- Lccn
- 2002009447
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.17
- Old_pallet
- IA13938
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL7871009M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL8396770W
- Page_number_confidence
- 93.36
- Pages
- 228
- Ppi
- 300
- Republisher_date
- 20190502221805
- Republisher_operator
- associate-jerry-medayre@archive.org
- Republisher_time
- 385
- Scandate
- 20190430011027
- Scanner
- station21.cebu.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- cebu
- Scribe3_search_catalog
- isbn
- Scribe3_search_id
- 0801882745
- Tts_version
- 2.1-final-2-gcbbe5f4
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 50041468
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
comment
Reviews
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review.
259 Previews
27 Favorites
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
No suitable files to display here.
EPUB and PDF access not available for this item.
IN COLLECTIONS
Texts to Borrow Books for People with Print Disabilities Trent University Library Donation Internet Archive BooksUploaded by station21.cebu on