Beyond the Gymnasium - Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany

Informationen zum Autor By Heikki Lempa Klappentext This book is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and class rooms it reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction. Zusammenfassung This book is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics! walking! dancing! gymnastics! cholera! and class rooms it reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1 Quest For Bodily Autonomy Chapter 3 Dietetics Chapter 4 Restoring the Balance Part 5 Practices of Bodily Education Chapter 6 Gymnastics Chapter 7 Dance Chapter 8 Walking Part 9 The Crises of the 1830s Chapter 10 Cholera Chapter 11 The Überbürdung Debate and Gymnasium Part 12 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Heikki Lempa, Lempa Heikki
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2007
• EAN: 9780739120903
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2090-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history