Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870Mercer University Press, 1998 - 369 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Majestic Womanhood vs BabyFaced Dolls The Debate Over Womens Exercise | 11 |
Souls of Fire in Iron Hearts The 1820s Gymnastics Revolution for Women | 33 |
William Fowles Monitorial School for Girls The First American Gymnastics Experiment | 71 |
The Literature of Calisthenics | 83 |
I Practice Calisthenics Every Day and Like It Quite Well Mary Lyon Mount Holyoke and American Calisthenics | 115 |
Reaping the Reward The Quest for Health | 279 |
Methodology | 299 |
Bibliography | 303 |
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