The Eternally Wounded Woman: Women, Doctors, and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century

Part 1 Male medical discourse - women and exercise across life-span: menstrual disability and female physical capability the thirty-year pilgramage - exercise in prime of life menopause, old age and exercise. Part 2 Women's voices - female physianss and their views on health and exercise: breaking professional mould - women's sruggle to enter medical profession women physicians - professional goals and exercise prescriptions. Part 3 Radical views on medical wisdom and physical culture: escape from freedom - G.Stanley Hall's totalitarian views on female health and physical education new women and nervous illness - feminist Charlotte perkins Gilman's pursuit of kjhealth and physical fitness as a strategy for emanicipation.