The Resource Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, Martha H. Verbrugge
Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, Martha H. Verbrugge
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The item Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, Martha H. Verbrugge represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781429400985
- Label
- Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston
- Title
- Able-bodied womanhood
- Title remainder
- personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston
- Statement of responsibility
- Martha H. Verbrugge
- Subject
-
- Electronic book
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health
- Health Services -- history
- History
- History, 19th Century
- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Physical Fitness
- Physical education for women
- Physical education for women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- Physical fitness for women
- Physical fitness for women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- United States | Women | Health, history
- Women -- Health and hygiene
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- history
- Women's Health Services
- 1800-1899
- Boston
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Verbrugge, Martha H
- Dewey number
- 613/.04244/09034
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA778
- LC item number
- .V452 1988eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- QT 11 AM4
- NLM item number
- V4a 1988
- Series statement
- ACLS Humanites E-book
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Women
- Physical fitness for women
- Physical education for women
- Health Services
- History, 19th Century
- Physical Fitness
- Women
- Women's Health Services
- Boston
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- Physical education for women
- Physical fitness for women
- Women
- Massachusetts
- Label
- Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, Martha H. Verbrugge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 290498295
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781429400985
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)290498295
- Label
- Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston, Martha H. Verbrugge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 290498295
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781429400985
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)290498295
Subject
- Electronic book
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health
- Health Services -- history
- History
- History, 19th Century
- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Physical Fitness
- Physical education for women
- Physical education for women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- Physical fitness for women
- Physical fitness for women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- United States | Women | Health, history
- Women -- Health and hygiene
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Massachusetts | Boston -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- history
- Women's Health Services
- 1800-1899
- Boston
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