History 3070
The Body Project
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Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor at Cornell where she has been teaching history, human development and gender studies since 1979. She is best known for her books on the history of girls. In 1988, Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa won the John Hope Franklin Prize, the Berkshire Book Prize, the Eileen Basker Prize, and the Watson Davis Prize. In 1998, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, was selected by the American Library Association for a Choice Award and also for special notice by Voice of Youth Advocacy. Both books have been translated into multiple languages and are read widely on American college and university campuses. (In her latest book -- Kansas Charley: The Boy Murderer -- she turns to adolescent boys and tells a compelling story about the way they have fared in the American justice system.)
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