The Eternally Wounded Woman
Subtitle: Women, Doctors, and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century (International Studies in the History of Sports)
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: January 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719025259
Subjects: Women physicians; History: World; Health Services For Women; Women; Exercise For Women; Feminism; Other Branches of Medicine; Social history; Great Britain; 19th century; Health and hygiene; History
First sentence: During the late nineteenth century arguments about women's limited physical and mental capacity and the centrality of the reproductive process for understanding women's bodies increasingly defined medical view's of women's health and the productive boundaries of their lives.