For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s by Mary Lynn Stewart

For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

Mary Lynn Stewart

288 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France the idea of "physical culture" emerged, promising health and beauty but also seeking to promote women's fertility in a period of declining population. Going beyond the simple argument that wom...

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