The Body Project
by Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
The author of Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa, Joan Jacobs Brumberg 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.Awards Brumberg has received include the Berkshire Book Prize for the best book by a woman historian, given by the Berkshire Women's History Conference (1988); the John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies, given by the American Studies Association (1989); the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for the best book in the area of gender and mental health, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology (1989); and the Watson Davis Prize for the best book in translating ideas for the public, given by the History of Science Society (1989).
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
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New York: Random House, 1997. 267 pages, b/w ills, index. Pictorial card covers. From the Introduction, this book 'is intended to provide the kind of intergenerational conversation about female bodies that most adult women ... have wishes for but never really had.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Item Price
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New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1997. 1st Edition. 8vo 267pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Drawing on a vast array of historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, this book chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is… Read more about this item Item Price
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