Body Image of Women
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History

In the book The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, she writes about how women's bodies are viewed differently from time to time.  No longer is the change in the body due to maturation, but the body is regarded as something to be managed and maintained.
 
Click on the links below as it will let you know what was popular at that time in regards to how the women looked during that time.

1800's

1890's

1910's

1920's

1950's-1960's

1967

Early 1990's

Late 1990's

2000+