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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs

 
9780679402978: The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
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ISBN 10: 0679402977 ISBN 13: 9780679402978
Editorial: Random House Inc, 1997

Sinopsis

Based on candid journal entries and photographs, the author of Fasting Girls explains how growing up female has changed over the past century and argues that American girls have come to define themselves more and more through their bodies. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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Joan Jacobs Brumberg is the award-winning author of Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. She is a Stephen H. Weiss Professor at Cornell University, where she holds a unique appointment teaching in the fields of history, human development, and women's studies. Her research and sensitive writing about American women and girls have been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Ithaca, New York.



"Brumberg writes beautifully: her generous use of direct quotes from girls' diaries makes this an interesting, lively, and moving account of girls' worries and obsessions about their bodies and their sexuality. The book is a call to arms; our girls are in trouble and Brumberg offers provo

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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 Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over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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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679402977
ISBN 13 
9780679402978
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
267
Contacto del fabricante
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