The eternally wounded woman : women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century / Patricia A. Vertinsky
1994, Second Edition. Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394827
ISBN: 0252063724
Physical description; 279 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Originally published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, c1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-274) and index. Contents; pt. 1. Male medical discourse: women and exercise across the life span -- Menstrual disability and female physical capability -- The thirty-year pilgrimage: exercise in the prime of life -- Menopause, old age and exercise -- pt. 2. Women's voices: female physicians and their views on health and exercise -- Breaking the professional mould: women's struggle to enter the medical profession -- Female physicians: professional goals and exercise prescriptions -- pt. 3. Radical views on medical wisdom and physical culture -- Escape from freedom: G. Stanley Hall's totalitarian views on female health and physical education -- The new woman and nervous illness: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Subjects; 1800-1899. Exercise for women History 19th century. Women physicians Great Britain History 19th century. Women Health and hygiene Great Britain History 19th century. Exercise for women History 19th century.
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