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Managing the Body
Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain 1880-1939
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
408 pages
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15 black and white illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928052-0
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Hardback
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07 October 2010
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- Written by the author of Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 (OUP, 2000), winner of the 2001 British Council Prize, North American Conference on British Studies.
- Analyses the growing popularity of hygienic regimen or body management such as dietary restrictions, exercise, sunbathing, dress reform, and birth control to cultivate beauty, health, and fitness in Britain
Managing the Body explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939. It analyses the growing popularity of hygienic regimen or body management such as dietary restrictions, exercise, sunbathing, dress reform, and birth control to cultivate beauty, health, and fitness. These bodily disciplines were advocated by a loosely connected group of life reform and physical culture promoters, doctors, and
public health campaigners against the background of rapid urbanization, the rise of modern lifestyles, a proliferation of visual images of beautiful bodies, and eugenicist fears about racial degeneration.
The author shows that body management was an essential aspect of the campaign for national efficiency before 1914. The modern nation state needed physically efficient, disciplined citizens and the promotion of hygienic practices was an integral component of the Edwardian welfare reforms. Anxieties about physical deterioration persisted after the First World War, as demonstrated by the launch of new pressure groups that aimed to transform Britain from a C3 to an A1 nation. These military categories became a recurrent metaphor throughout the interwar years and the virtuous
habits of the healthy and fit A1 citizen were juxtaposed with those of the C3 anti-citizen, whose undisciplined lifestyle was attributed to ignorance and lack of self-control. Practices such as vegetarianism, nudism, and men's dress reform were utopian and appealed only to a small minority, but sunbathing, hiking, and keep-fit classes became mainstream activities and they were promoted in the National Government's 'National Fitness Campaign' of the late 1930s.Readership: Scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in modern British history; women's and gender studies; the social history of medicine
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Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Professor of Modern British History, University of Illinois, Chicago
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"An audaciously ambitious, carefully researched monograph..." - Susan Hogan, Times Higher Education "Fantastic...an ambitious book, setting dozens of lifestyle movements deeply in a well informed vision of British social and political life...excellent" - Vanessa Heggie, Social History of Medicine
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Introduction
1880s - 1914
1: Modern Urban Lifestyles, Degeneration, and the Male Body
2: The Fit Male Body, Nation, and Empire
3: The Modern Woman as Race Mother
1918 - 1939
4: Building an A 1 Nation: Health and Life Reform in the 1920s
5: Reconstructing the Male Body
6: The Modern Female Body as a Mass Phenomenon
7: National Fitness in the 1930s
Conclusion
Bibliography
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