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Author

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.

Title The body project : an intimate history of American girls / Joan Jacobs Brumberg.

Imprint

New York : Random House, c1997.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	305.235 B834b	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xxxiii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: the body as evidence -- The body's new timetable: how the life course of American girls has changed -- Sanitizing puberty: the American way to menstruate -- Perfect skin -- Body projects -- The disappearance of virginity: sexual expression and sexual danger -- Girl advocacy again.
Subject	Teenage girls -- United States -- History.
	Young women -- United States -- History.
	Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
ISBN	0679402977