The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

336 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history sociology challenging informative medium-paced

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The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project.A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teac...

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informative 100%
reflective 42%
challenging 28%
emotional 14%
hopeful 14%
tense 14%

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slow 28%

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