Mary Lynn Stewart is a professor in the Department of History and the Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. She is the coauthor of Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914, also available from Johns Hopkins.

This seminal work will inspire considerable discussion, and belongs in every advanced library collection. Choice This carefully researched work challenges historians to a different kind of dialogue on comparative studies... It is stimulating for those interested in comparative representations of gender differences and political pressures on women's self understanding. -- Marilyn S. Mavrinac History of Education Quarterly Like good wine, this book exemplifies how ten years of slower maturation of research bring a more subtle and multi-layered final result... an invaluable springboard for multi-disciplinary investigation in French, social and women's history. -- Mary Orr History: Reviews of Books A thoughtful and highly readable study... No other historian has so successfully integrated the discourse on women's bodies, framed by an idealized concept of the bourgeois woman, with the physical reality of the working-class woman's experience. -- Theresa M. McBride American Historical Review Mary Lynn Stewart has produced an informative work based on her examination of a wide range of scientific and popular sources from the period. She succeeds in bringing to light the attitudes conveyed to French women about their bodies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Alice J. Strange French Review An extremely thorough and perceptive analysis of a vast corpus of largely disregarded material. -- Sian Reynolds French History [A] wide-ranging history of physical culture at the turn of the century... Stewart's conclusions are thought-provoking and the range of her research impressive. -- Morag Martin Medical History In sum, For Health and Beauty provides a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the shifting discourses and practices of bourgeois French women's embodiment during five momentous decades of transformations in gender norms and expectations. Social History of Medicine 2003

Mary Lynn Stewart is a professor in the Department of History and the Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. She is the coauthor of Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914, also available from Johns Hopkins.

This seminal work will inspire considerable discussion, and belongs in every advanced library collection. Choice This carefully researched work challenges historians to a different kind of dialogue on comparative studies... It is stimulating for those interested in comparative representations of gender differences and political pressures on women's self understanding. -- Marilyn S. Mavrinac History of Education Quarterly Like good wine, this book exemplifies how ten years of slower maturation of research bring a more subtle and multi-layered final result... an invaluable springboard for multi-disciplinary investigation in French, social and women's history. -- Mary Orr History: Reviews of Books A thoughtful and highly readable study... No other historian has so successfully integrated the discourse on women's bodies, framed by an idealized concept of the bourgeois woman, with the physical reality of the working-class woman's experience. -- Theresa M. McBride American Historical Review Mary Lynn Stewart has produced an informative work based on her examination of a wide range of scientific and popular sources from the period. She succeeds in bringing to light the attitudes conveyed to French women about their bodies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Alice J. Strange French Review An extremely thorough and perceptive analysis of a vast corpus of largely disregarded material. -- Sian Reynolds French History [A] wide-ranging history of physical culture at the turn of the century... Stewart's conclusions are thought-provoking and the range of her research impressive. -- Morag Martin Medical History In sum, For Health and Beauty provides a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the shifting discourses and practices of bourgeois French women's embodiment during five momentous decades of transformations in gender norms and expectations. Social History of Medicine 2003

Mary Lynn Stewart is a professor in the Department of History and the Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. She is the coauthor of Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914, also available from Johns Hopkins.

This seminal work will inspire considerable discussion, and belongs in every advanced library collection. Choice This carefully researched work challenges historians to a different kind of dialogue on comparative studies... It is stimulating for those interested in comparative representations of gender differences and political pressures on women's self understanding. -- Marilyn S. Mavrinac History of Education Quarterly Like good wine, this book exemplifies how ten years of slower maturation of research bring a more subtle and multi-layered final result... an invaluable springboard for multi-disciplinary investigation in French, social and women's history. -- Mary Orr History: Reviews of Books A thoughtful and highly readable study... No other historian has so successfully integrated the discourse on women's bodies, framed by an idealized concept of the bourgeois woman, with the physical reality of the working-class woman's experience. -- Theresa M. McBride American Historical Review Mary Lynn Stewart has produced an informative work based on her examination of a wide range of scientific and popular sources from the period. She succeeds in bringing to light the attitudes conveyed to French women about their bodies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Alice J. Strange French Review An extremely thorough and perceptive analysis of a vast corpus of largely disregarded material. -- Sian Reynolds French History [A] wide-ranging history of physical culture at the turn of the century... Stewart's conclusions are thought-provoking and the range of her research impressive. -- Morag Martin Medical History In sum, For Health and Beauty provides a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the shifting discourses and practices of bourgeois French women's embodiment during five momentous decades of transformations in gender norms and expectations. Social History of Medicine 2003