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Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 (Hardcover)
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Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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This first book-length study of girls' health in modern Britain
explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood, invoking new
visions and practices of health, shaped ideas about the lives and
potential of adolescent girls from the 1870s to the 1920s. It
demonstrates how the 'modern girl' with her 'modern body' was
created during this period, as a range of new experts promoted
innovative approaches to hygiene, diet and exercise. Theories
concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were
challenged and replaced with a growing emphasis on the importance
of behaviour in producing good health, and girls deemed responsible
for taking care of their own wellbeing. New practices of health,
though varying significantly across the social classes, enabled the
extension of girls' roles in education, work, sport, and
recreation, and fed into the creation of a new cultural category of
'girlhood' as a discrete and important phase between childhood and
womanhood.
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