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 obsession 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 will
interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of culture
and gender.
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