Able-bodied Womanhood

Able-bodied Womanhood

Author: Martha H. Verbrugge

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0195051246

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This case study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900 combines medical and social history to analyze the conflicting messages--both feminist and conservative--projected by the concept of "able-bodied womanhood."