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Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston /
Against the backdrop of national debate about female duties and well-being, this book follows middle-class women as they learned about physiology and hygiene through popular health literature, voluntary clubs, and schools in Boston. The pursuit of health also enabled the women to explore the nature...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Against the backdrop of national debate about female duties and well-being, this book follows middle-class women as they learned about physiology and hygiene through popular health literature, voluntary clubs, and schools in Boston. The pursuit of health also enabled the women to explore the nature of womanhood, and discover the meanings. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429400986 9781429400985 1601296746 9781601296740 9780195051247 0195051246 |