FROM CORSETS TO BODY PIERCING: BRUMBERG TO GIVE BODY IMAGE LECTURE AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls," will give a lecture titled "From Corsets to Body Piercing: How History and Culture Shape the Experience of American Girls," Thursday, March 21, 2002, 7:30 in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College.Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:16 AM
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls," will give a lecture titled "From Corsets to Body Piercing: How History and Culture Shape the Experience of American Girls," Thursday, March 21, 2002, 7:30 in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is the first annual Danielle Dionne Memorial Lecture in Women's Studies at Muhlenberg.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg is the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of History, Human Development, and Women's Studies at Cornell University. Her lecture is based on her widely reviewed book "The Body Project." Brumberg explains how the American girl's relationship to her body has changed over the past 100 years and reveals why the body has become and all-consuming project and why "girlhood [has become] something of an endangered status" in her book.
Drawing on the intimate and unpublished diaries and photographs of American girls from the 1830s to today, "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" unlocks the mystery of what it means and how it feels to grow up in a female body-to get at "the heart" of being a girl. Told with humor and grace, Brumberg's story underscores how girl's bodies have changed over the last century, stimulating memories of every woman's struggle with growing up.
Brumberg is the also author of the award-winning "Fasting Girls: The History of American Girls."
