Eternally Wounded Women
Subtitle: Women, Doctors and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252063725
Subjects: Exercise & workout books; Personal & public health; Women's health; Health Services For Women; Sports & Recreation; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Sports; History; Women's Studies - History; Sports & Recreation / General; General; 19th century; Exercise For Women; Great Britain; Health and hygiene; Women; Women physicians
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.