Book ID: CBB001422200

Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874--1920 (2013)

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Marland, Hilary (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 270 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

This first book-length study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood, invoking new visions and practices of health, shaped ideas about the lives and potential of adolescent girls from the 1870s to the 1920s. It demonstrates how the 'modern girl' with her 'modern body' was created during this period, as a range of new experts promoted innovative approaches to hygiene, diet and exercise. Theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and replaced with a growing emphasis on the importance of behaviour in producing good health, and girls deemed responsible for taking care of their own wellbeing. New practices of health, though varying significantly across the social classes, enabled the extension of girls' roles in education, work, sport, and recreation, and fed into the creation of a new cultural category of 'girlhood' as a discrete and important phase between childhood and womanhood.

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Authors & Contributors
Polat, Bican
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina
Silva, Carlos Leonardo Bahiense da
Shin, Dongwon
Reichardt, Eike
Pollock, Ethan
Concepts
Hygiene
Physical training; exercise
Public health
Medicine and gender
Human body
Health care
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Brazil
Paraguay
Spain
South Africa
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
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