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Author Marland, Hilary, author.

Title Health and girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 / Hilary Marland
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
Contents 1. Unstable Adolescence: Medicine and the 'Perils of Puberty' in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- 2. Reinventing the Victorian Girl: Health Advice for Girls in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 3. Health, Exercise and the Emergence of the Modern Girl -- 4. Girls, Education and the School as a Site of Health -- 5. The Health of the Factory Girl -- Conclusion Future Mothers of the Empire or a 'Double Gain'?
Summary This first book-length study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood, invoking new visions and practices of health, shaped ideas about the lives and potential of adolescent girls from the 1870s to the 1920s. It demonstrates how the 'modern girl' with her 'modern body' was created during this period, as a range of new experts promoted innovative approaches to hygiene, diet and exercise. Theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and replaced with a growing emphasis on the importance of behaviour in producing good health, and girls deemed responsible for taking care of their own wellbeing. New practices of health, though varying significantly across the social classes, enabled the extension of girls' roles in education, work, sport, and recreation, and fed into the creation of a new cultural category of 'girlhood' as a discrete and important phase between childhood and womanhood. <br/> <br/>
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Girls -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain -- History
Girls -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Girls -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Assistants.
Girls -- Health and hygiene
Girls -- Social conditions
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056953
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137328144
1137328142