Life in the West

Life in the West
Author: Nathan Cook Meeker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1868
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

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.