Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston /
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Able-bodied womanhood : personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston /

Against the backdrop of national debate about female duties and well-being, this book follows middle-class women as they learned about physiology and hygiene through popular health literature, voluntary clubs, and schools in Boston. The pursuit of health also enabled the women to explore the nature...

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Main Author: Verbrugge, Martha H. (Author)
Corporate Author: ACLS Humanities Ebook
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Access:Online version
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