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BL
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952631
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b707001
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| Main Entry
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Verbrugge, Martha H.
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| Title & Author
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Able-bodied womanhood : : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston /\ Martha H. Verbrugge.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1988.
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| Series Statement
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ACLS Humanites E-book
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0195051246
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: 1429400986
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: 1601296746
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: 9780195051247
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: 9781429400985
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: 9781601296740
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0195051246
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction; 1. The Etiology of Dis-ease: Life and Death in Middle-Class Boston, 1830-1860; 2. Moral Physiology and the Habits of a Healthy Life; 3. "Know Thyself": The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity, 1848-1880; 4. In Private and In Public: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, 1880-1898; 5. Fitness of Body and Mind: Personal Health in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston; 6. "Stronger in Body as well as in Mind": Physical Education at Wellesley College, 1875-1900; 7. "Veritable Crusaders": The Early Graduates of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, 1889-1900.
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| Abstract
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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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Physical education for women-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- History-- 19th century.
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Physical fitness for women-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- History-- 19th century.
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Women-- Health and hygiene-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- History-- 19th century.
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Health Services-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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Physical Fitness.
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Women-- history.
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Women's Health Services.
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Condition physique des femmes-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Éducation physique féminine-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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Femmes-- Santé et hygiène-- Massachusetts-- Boston-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Women's Health.
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Physical education for women.
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Physical fitness for women.
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Women-- Health and hygiene.
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Boston.
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Massachusetts, Boston.
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| Dewey Classification
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613/.04244/09034
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| LC Classification
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RA778.V452 1988eb
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| NLM classification
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QT 11 AM4V4a 1988
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