Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870
- ISBN-10
- 0865545618
- ISBN-13
- 9780865545618
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Author
- Jan Todd
Description
Todd (kinesiology and health education, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses the diverse spectrum of women's exercise in the antebellum era-- especially exercise systems related to an ideal of womanhood--and the ways that purposive training influenced American women physically, intellectually, and emotionally. She also considers the contributions of several physical education figures: Sarah Pierce, Mary Lyon, William Bentley Fowle, Catherine Beecher, David P. Butler, Dio Lewis, and the phrenologist Orson S. Fowler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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