Mission For Life tells the remarkable story of two generations of an important family of evangelicals, the Judson family. The Judson's story is both colorful and extremely human, and the cast of characters is absorbing. This chronicle of a Baptist evangelical family represents a new and important direction in the social history of popular American religion. The author's skillful treatment of the Judson family illuminates the course of American cultural development and casts new light on the persistence of the evangelical tradition.

Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson, the Dramatic Events of the First American Foreign Mission, and the Course of Evangelica

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs

Religion & Spirituality

Free Pr

Traces the century-old juvenile murder case of fifteen-year-old Charles Miller, citing such factors as his orphaned state at the age of six, his inability to find a safe home, the influences of poverty and abuse that led to his murder of two other young men, and his controversial, politically motivated execution. Reprint.

Kansas Charley: The Boy Murderer

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin??Books

Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders of science" whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.

Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Traces the historic roots of anorexia nervosa from its emergence during the Victorian era to its pervasiveness in the twentieth century and explores the cultural significance of appetite control in women's lives

Plume

Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

The Body Project : An Intimate History of American Girls

San Val

Traces the century-old juvenile murder case of Charles Miller, citing such factors as his orphaned state at the age of six, his inability to find a safe home, and the influences of poverty and abuse that lead to his murder of two other young men, and his controversial, politically motivated execution. 17,500 first printing.

Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th-Century Boy Murderer

Viking Adult

Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

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. Girls' bodies have certainly changed--they mature much earlier--but at the same time traditional social supports for girls' growth and development have collapsed. The media and popular culture exploit girls' normal sensitivity to their changing bodies, and many girls grow up believing that "good looks" --rather than "good works"--represent the highest form of female perfection. With an eye for the humor in as well as the pain of female adolescence, Joan Jacobs Brumberg shows how American girls came to define themselves increasingly through their appearance, so that today the body has become their primary project. With remarkable insight, Brumberg provides an account of what adolescent girls gained and lost as American women shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of dieting, sexual freedom, and consumerism. She explains how doctors and parents helped to promote an ideal of physical perfection that underlies the current preoccupation with the body and contributes to many of the social and emotional problems identified by Mary Pipher in Reviving Ophelia and by Carol Gilligan in In a Different Voice. The Body Project describes the historical roots of the acute societal and psychological pressures that girls feel today, evoking important memories of girl culture as well as milestones of physical and emotional development, such as first periods, pimples, training bras, first dates, and sexual awakening. A vivid photo essay and excerpts from intimate diaries underscore how girls' attitudes toward their bodies and sexuality have changed in the last century. The Body Project is a superb book, gracefully written, filled with understanding, and very relevant to the lives of girls and women today.

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Random House]

A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with character to our modern focus on outward appearance—in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project.

Women's Studies

Vintage

Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson

Self-Help

New York University Press

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