| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875–1930. By Margaret A. Lowe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x, 212 pp. $40.00,ISBN 0-8018-7209-X.)
In Looking Good, Margaret A. Lowe analyzes women students' campus lives from 1870 to 1930, arguing that the "academic realm" offers "a somewhat overlooked but critical lens" (p. 4) for looking at the history of the female body during the era when the notion of body image was formed. Her choices of specific campuses as case studies—Smith, a women's college, Cornell, a coeducational university, and Spelman, the only historically black women's college—allow Lowe to consider the effects of coeducation and race on her story.	1
The first four chapters deal with the period from 1870 to 1920 and the earliest generations of American college women. Lowe's interpretation of contemporary debates over the purposes and consequences of women's higher education focuses on concerns over women's health, especially the potential of advanced study to damage their reproductive systems. White college women, particularly those enrolled in single-sex schools, resisted these gloomy predictions by taking positive (and pleasurable) steps to ensure their health and well-being, for example, athletic competitions, daily exercise, and hearty eating, thereby establishing a new model for the female body.	. . .

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