Book ID: CBB000320372

For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s (2001)

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Stewart, Mary Lynn (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xii + 274 pp.; illus; bib.; index
Language: English

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Review Schultheiss, Katrin (2002) Review of "For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 100). unapi

Review Fletcher, Yaël Simpson (2003) Review of "For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s". Social History of Medicine (p. 153). unapi

Review Wilson, Lindsay (2002) Review of "For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 621). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Carlo Gelmetti
Luca Muscardin
Franco Rongioletti
Epstein, Randi Hutter
Elvbakken, Kari Tove
Stefania Paolino
Concepts
Sexual hygiene
Medicine
Medicine and gender
Sexually transmitted diseases
Human physiology
Sexuality
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
United States
Italy
Great Britain
Peru
Spain
Norway
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