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The
cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930 Michael Hau Published by University of Chicago Press (2003) |
Book description
From the 1890s to the
1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline
their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some
became vegetarians, nudists or bodybuilders, while others turned to
alternative medicine or eugenics. In "The Cult of Health and Beauty
in Germany", Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women
were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous
impact on German society and medicine. Hau argues that the obsessions
with personal health and fitness was often rooted in anxieties over
professional and economic success, as well as fears that modern
industrialized civilization was causing Germany and its people to
degenerate. He also examines how different social groups gave different
meanings to the same hygienic practices and aesthetic ideals. What
results is a penetrating look at class formation in pre-Nazi Germany
that should interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of
culture and gender.
About the Author
Michael Hau is a lecturer in the School of Historical Studies and teaches classes on the history of WW II and the Nazi Era, as well as a class on the social history of medicine.
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