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Body image - History

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24 works

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    Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

    | Brady, Jacqueline. | Date: 2000
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    Beyond the gymnasium : educating the middle-class bodies in classical Germany / Heikki Lempa.

    | Lempa, Heikki | Date: [2007]
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    Obesity : the biography / Sander L. Gilman.

    | Sander Gilman | Date: 2010
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    Looking good : college women and body image, 1875-1930 / Margaret A. Lowe.

    | Margaret A. Lowe | Date: [2003]
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    The expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama.

    | Shigehisa Kuriyama | Date: 1999
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History, 20th Century
Germany
Physical Education and Training
Human body - History
Gender identity - History

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