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Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Jan Todd
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Mercer University Press

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Todd (kinesiology and health education, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses the diverse spectrum of women's exercise in the antebellum era-- especially exercise syst
The History of Physical Culture in Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Conor Heffernan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-24 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precu
The History of Physical Culture
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Conor Heffernan
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks

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Physical culture can be crudely defined as those exercise practices designed to physically change the body. In modern parlance we may associate physical culture
Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Harold Aspiz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Shannon L. Walsh
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-16 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s–1920s). This