Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-century Boston
Verbrugge, Martha H.
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Hardcover
304 pages
Published: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0195051246
Women's lives in particular reveal the social significance of ideas about health during the period 1830-1900. The pursuit of health also enabled middle-class women to explore the nature of womanhood.