Vigorous Reforms
Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Seiten
2025
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-8902-9 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-8902-9 (ISBN)
Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was produced by men, Vigorous Reforms focuses on the understudied literary history of how women came to understand physicality and its connection to their everyday lives. The introduction of physical education allowed women to conceive their own and others' bodies not as static entities, but as adaptable to their own needs, goals, and labor. Jess Libow also shows the limits of the science of the era—since bodily differences were often understood as biologically determined, theories of health defined womanhood in terms of racialized bodily abilities. For example, settler colonial ideology coded Native women as deteriorating due to their "uncivilized" ways of life, and proponents of slavery insisted that Black women's inherent strength made them suitable for enslavement.
Drawing on a wide-ranging archive of ideas about exercise, hygiene, and nutrition, Libow argues that women's writing about health was fundamental to the development of what we now think of as American feminism.
Drawing on a wide-ranging archive of ideas about exercise, hygiene, and nutrition, Libow argues that women's writing about health was fundamental to the development of what we now think of as American feminism.
Jess Libow is interim director of the writing program and visiting assistant professor at Haverford College.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.08.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations - 3 halftones - 3 Halftones, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 25 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4696-8902-2 / 1469689022 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-8902-9 / 9781469689029 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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