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Looking good : college women and body image, 1875-1930 / Margaret A. Lowe.
Van Pelt Library HQ1220.U5 L693 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Margaret A., 1961-
- Series:
- Gender relations in the American experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Body image--United States.
- Body image.
- Women college students--United States.
- Women college students.
- Women.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- United States.
- Women--United States--Identity.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Historian Margaret A. Lowe examines the process by which women at Cornell University, Smith College, and Spelman College emancipated themselves between 1875 and 1930, creating new models of 'body image.'
- Contents:
- Ideals and expectations : race, health, and femininity
- Fit for academia : gaining pounds, vigor, and virtue
- Body, spirit, and race : embodying respect
- The college look : campus fashions
- Modern sexuality : new women, coeds, and flappers
- The new shape of science : diets and dieting on campus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080187209X
- OCLC:
- 50041468
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