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The body project : an intimate history of American girls / Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--United States--History.
- Teenage girls.
- Young women--United States--History.
- Young women.
- Human body--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Human body.
- Attitude (Psychology).
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Adolescent--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Attitude.
- Women--psychology.
- Women's Health.
- United States.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Adolescent--history.
- Social Conditions--history.
- Attitude.
- Women--psychology.
- Women's Health.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- Presents historical evidence, based on research that includes the diaries of American girls written between the 1830s and 1990s, to show how the process of maturation has changed since the nineteenth century, making young women more anxious than ever before about their bodies and themselves.
- Contents:
- Body as evidence
- Body's new timetable: how the life course of American girls has changed
- Sanitizing puberty: American way to menstruate
- Perfect skin
- Body projects
- Disappearance of virginity: sexual expression and sexual danger
- Girl advocacy again.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Random House, 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0679735291
- 9780679735298
- 0679402977
- 9780679402978
- OCLC:
- 39223523
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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