Body Project, The: An Intimate History of American Girls
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299010574 (1299010571)
Publish date: January 1st 2010
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
Actual Rating: 2.5 StarsIn this book, Brumberg examines the one hundred years of history between 1895 and 1995, and how society’s attitude has changed toward young women. She asks the question, even though we are now free of corsets and have more rights, do we really have it any better than our Vict...
Interesting in some areas, in particular when dealing with menstruation, but it loses something towards the end.
This book was unbelievable. It was a fascinating account of the impact of societal influence of women in from the late 1800's to today. When a manager in my library had suggested I read the book, raised an eyebrow at her and said "What the heck?". Boy, am I glad I did. At the time I was reading this...
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