The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930
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The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930
The University of Chicago Press, 2003
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-271) and index
収録内容
- Life reform as bürgerliche kultur
- Popular hygienic culture, class, and aesthetic norms
- Gender and aesthetic norms in popular hygienic culture
- Racial aesthetics
- Models of holistic constitutionalism in regular medicine and natural therapy
- The constitutional convergence : life reform, the "crisis of medicine," and Weimar hygiene exhibitions
- Constitutional typologies : Weimar racial science and medicine
- Weimar leisure culture : freikörperkultur and the quest for authenticity and Volksgemeinschaft
内容説明・目次
内容説明
From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became vegetarians, nudists or bodybuilders, while others turned to alternative medicine or eugenics. In "The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany", Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous impact on German society and medicine. Hau argues that the obsessions with personal health and fitness was often rooted in anxieties over professional and economic success, as well as fears that modern industrialized civilization was causing Germany and its people to degenerate. He also examines how different social groups gave different meanings to the same hygienic practices and aesthetic ideals. What results is a penetrating look at class formation in pre-Nazi Germany that should interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of culture and gender.
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