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Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s The Body Project uses a wide array of historical materials—unpublished diaries of adolescent girls, photographs, and lively secondary sources—to chart the evolution of girls’ bodies over the last century. The book shows how earlier biological maturation, together with the decline of traditional support systems, has made the body the central focus of American girls’ self‑definition. It examines the influence of media and popular culture on the perception that appearance, more than achievement, represents female perfection.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
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