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Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful
Jan Todd
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Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870
出版Mercer University Press, 1998
主題Health & Fitness / Exercise / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / WomenSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN08655456189780865545618
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W1PnCu9k6OEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In examining the course of the debate between the philosophies of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century, several important conclusions have been reached. First, a much more diverse spectrum of women's exercise existed in the antebellum era than is currently described in modern historical texts. Second, several exercise systems had significant links to an ideal of womanhood - called in this text Majestic Womanhood - which directly competed with the prevailing construct of the ideology of True Womanhood articulated by historian Barbara Welter. Third, purposive training mattered in the lives of American women influencing them physically, intellectually, and emotionally. In many instances this training empowered women to step beyond the confines of their separate sphere of domestic duty and involve themselves in the world outside their homes.