For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s

by Mary Lynn Stewart

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003

In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France the idea of physical culture emerged, promising health and beauty but also seeking to promote women's fertility in a period of declining population. Going beyond the simple argument that women's bodily standards and practices were altered by such cultural disciplines as education, medicine, journalism, and advertising,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801864836
• ISBN13: 9780801864834
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"