2026-04-30T05:16:16Zhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/oai/requestoai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/236892022-01-11T10:34:55Zcom_10324_23595com_10324_5186com_10324_29291col_10324_23605
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author
Rubio Campos, María del Carmen
editor
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
2017-06-20T16:47:59Z
2017-06-20T16:47:59Z
2009
Agora para la educación física y el deporte, 2009, N.11, pags.43-61
1578-2174
http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23689
43
11
61
From mid nineteenth century onwards the publication of prescriptive literature for and about women increasingly rose in Spain until reaching its peak by the turn of the century: manuals, essays, treatises and textbooks for girls experienced an unprecedented boom. Hygiene manuals in particular intended to convince women of the need to be guided by male doctors and, while prescribing hygienic practices to improve women's health and that of their families, manuals also prescribed social roles such as that of wife and mother. Thus, the female body and the ways to keep it healthy became a way of preserving Spain's status quo and traditional male authority. The most convincing technique to reinforce that authority was the use of a scientific halo conveyed by medical discourse, with which the authors empowered themselves and their works. However, scientific discourse in hygiene manuals was full of fissures: science was curiously mixed with the popular and the romantic, the literary and ancient beliefs about the female body and mind more in accordance with superstition than scientific objectivity.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Romance and pseudoscience: female indoctrination in hygiene manuals, 1850s-turn of the century
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/23689/1/AEFD-2009-11-romance-pseudoscience.pdf
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