An edition of The body project (1997)

The body project

an intimate history of American girls

1st ed.
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An edition of The body project (1997)

The body project

an intimate history of American girls

1st ed.
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
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Girls today are in crisis - and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before.

Girls' bodies have certainly changed - they mature much earlier - but at the same time traditional social supports for girls' growth and development have collapsed. The media and popular culture exploit girls' normal sensitivity to their changing bodies, and many girls grow up believing that "good looks" - rather than "good works" - represent the highest form of female perfection.

With an eye for the humor in as well as the pain of female adolescence, Joan Jacobs Brumberg shows how American girls came to define themselves increasingly through their appearance, so that today the body has become their primary project.

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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Pages
267

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Cover of: The Body Project
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
October 1999, Tandem Library
in English
Cover of: The Body Project
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
1998-04-01, Demco Media
Cover of: The body project
The body project: an intimate history of American girls
1998, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: The body project
The body project: an intimate history of American girls
1997, Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.23/5
Library of Congress
HQ798 .B724 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 267 p. :
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL984146M
Internet Archive
bodyprojectintim00brum
ISBN 10
0679402977
LCCN
96021885
OCLC/WorldCat
34731186
Library Thing
5444
Goodreads
1151105

First Sentence

"In 1808, when eleven-year-old Susanna Adams began to menstruate, it was a shock, and a matter of deep concern, because of her age."

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