Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Autore di The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
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Professor of human development at Cornell University, Joan Jacobs Brumberg has devoted much of her energy to studying the social experiences of 13-21 year old girls in the United States over the past 100 years. Her numerous papers and books deal with a wide range of cultural issues: the changing mostra altro social and cultural experience of menarche and menstruation; the changing nature of educational and work opportunities; parenting; popular culture and leisure; and diseases of girls. In 1988, she published Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. In 1997, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls was published. Brumberg holds a B.A. in history from the University of Rochester (1965) and a Ph.D. in American social and cultural history from the University of Virginia (1978). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1944-04-29
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Rochester (B.A.|History|1965)
University of Virginia (Ph.D.)
Boston College (M.A.|American Studies|1971) - Organizzazioni
- Cornell University (Professor Emerita)
Society of American Historians (Fellow)
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- 4
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,376
- Popolarità
- #18,685
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 15
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It's as if Brumberg needs to be that mother figure for young girls. The Body Project has a whole chapter on acne: pimples and blackheads, calling it the plague of youth or a sign of poverty. Not only is the history of the treatment of acne covered, but how marketing took advantage of the plight of teenagers with unclear skin. Eye opening for me was when Brumberg addressed masturbation and the misconception it causes acne. I have to admit, I never heard of that. Wasn't the theory you would go blind?
Another body project is more well known - the desire to be thin. One girl didn't want to attend Mount Holyoke for fear of gaining weight. She had heard the food was quite good but her goal was to lose weight, not gain it.
A word of warning: Brumberg focusses mainly on middle class girls and all of her reporting is from mid-nineties statistics. Despite that, it is an interesting read.… (altro)