Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781869402914)

Vendor: Caroline Daley
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960

$19.95

Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960

$19.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900-1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture of the beach and the pool; nudism; and children's play and the appearance of playgrounds. The central aim is to explore how bodies--men's, women's and children's--were shaped and displayed through various leisure pursuits in 20th-century New Zealand.


Author: Caroline Daley
ISBN-10: 186940291X
ISBN-13: 9781869402914
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 8.68h x 6.28w x 0.75d
By Caroline Daley
By Caroline Daley
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Caroline Daley is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. She is the coeditor of the New Zealand Journal of History and a past editor of the Women's Studies Journal. She is the author of Girls and Women, Men and Boys, Suffrage and Beyond, and The Gendered Kiwi.

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