Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful

Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful
Author: Jan Todd
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780865545618

Todd (kinesiology and health education, U. of Texas, Austin) discusses the diverse spectrum of women's exercise in the antebellum era-- especially exercise systems related to an ideal of womanhood--and the ways that purposive training influenced American women physically, intellectually, and emotionally. She also considers the contributions of several physical education figures: Sarah Pierce, Mary Lyon, William Bentley Fowle, Catherine Beecher, David P. Butler, Dio Lewis, and the phrenologist Orson S. Fowler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Education

Education
Author: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1883
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

A History of Modern Psychology in Context

A History of Modern Psychology in Context
Author: Wade Pickren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010-02-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 047058601X

In A History of Modern Psychology in Context, the authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of thought that rise and fall in the wake of scientific progress. Instead, psychology is portrayed as a network of scientific and professional practices embedded in specific contexts. The narrative is informed by three key concepts—indigenization, reflexivity, and social constructionism—and by the fascinating interplay between disciplinary Psychology and everyday psychology.