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Managing the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880--1939 (2010)

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Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina (Author)

Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xi + 394 pp.; ill.
Language: English
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Health Health promotion Physical fitness Aesthetics Gender identity Women and health 19th century 20th century, early Great Britain

Managing the Body' explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939

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Review Bingham, Adrian (2012) Review of "Managing the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880--1939". History (pp. 170-172). unapi

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Wilhelm, Lindsay Puawehiwa
Fiorilli, Olivia
Ehrenberger, Kristen Ann
Smith, Jenna Murdock
Pierce, Jennifer Burek
Newcombe, Suzanne
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Public Understanding of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
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Health promotion
Women and health
Health
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Gender identity
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Sinclair, Upton Beall
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19th century
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20th century
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Great Britain
United States
Spain
Québec (Canada)
Netherlands
Portugal
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United States. Food and Drug Administration
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