Introduction
1880s - 1914
1. Modern Urban Lifestyles, Degeneration, and the Male Body
2. The Fit Male Body, Nation, and Empire
3. The Modern Woman as Race Mother
1918 - 1939
4. Building an A 1 Nation: Health and Life Reform in the 1920s
5. Reconstructing
the Male Body
6. The Modern Female Body as a Mass Phenomenon
7. National Fitness in the 1930s
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska is a Professor of Modern British History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is author of Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 (OUP, 2000), winner of the 2001 British Council Prize, North American Conference on British
Studies. Her other publications include an edited collection, Women in Twentieth Century Britain (Pearson Education, 2001), '"The Culture of the Abdomen": Obesity and Reducing in Britain, c.1900-1939', Journal of British Studies (2005), and 'Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Interwar
Britain', Journal of Contemporary History (2006).
Reconstructing the Body - Dr. Ana Carden-Coyne
Beauty Imagined - Geoffrey Jones
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones