The eternally wounded woman : women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century
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The eternally wounded woman : women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century
(International studies in the history of sport)
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1990
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the late 19th century, male doctors played a major role in shaping attitudes toward the physical capabilities of middle-class women. Women, too, wrote about their particular concerns for health and physical exercise as well as experiences with their doctors. Traditional views concerning the eternally wounded woman and the kinds of exercise necessary to fit her for healthy womanhood demonstrated remarkable resilience despite claims that the "new woman" would render the "anatomy is destiny" argument obsolete. This book examines the debate about women and exercise from the points of view of the male medical establishment, the early pioneer female doctors, intellectual feminism and the developing profession of psychology. A special focus is placed upon the cautionary, and sometimes misogynous, nature of medical prescriptions of exercise for the ageing woman.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Male medical discourse - women and exercise across the life-span: menstrual disability and female physical capability
- "the thirty-year pilgramage" - exercise in the prime of life
- menopause, old age and exercise. Part 2 Women's voices - female physianss and their views on health and exercise: breaking the professional mould - women's sruggle to enter the medical profession
- women physicians - professional goals and exercise prescriptions. Part 3 Radical views on medical wisdom and physical culture: escape from freedom - G.Stanley Hall's totalitarian views on female health and physical education
- new women and nervous illness - feminist Charlotte perkins Gilman's pursuit of kjhealth and physical fitness as a strategy for emanicipation.
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