Author: Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
Title: The Body Project : An Intimate History of American Girls
Description: New York, Random House, 1997. Hardcover. xxxiii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Very good condition/very good d.j. Girls today are in crisis--and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before.

Keywords: Teenage Girls--United States--History; Young Women--United States--History; Human Body--Social Aspects--United States--History


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