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THE BODY PROJECT: An Intimate History of American Girls

THE BODY PROJECT: An Intimate History of American Girls

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THE BODY PROJECT: An Intimate History of American Girls

by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

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Random House, 1997. Book Club. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over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.

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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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Title
THE BODY PROJECT: An Intimate History of American Girls
Author
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
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Book Club
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0679402977
ISBN 13
9780679402978
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
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Date Published
1997

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