Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany

by Heikki Lempa

Book Overview

This book is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and class rooms it reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739120905
• ISBN13: 9780739120903
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"