Seeing your way to health: the visual pedagogy of Bess Mensendieck's physical culture system
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This essay examines the images and looking practices central to Bess M. Mensendieck's (c.1866-1959) 'functional exercise' system, as documented in physical culture treatises published in Germany and the United States between 1906 and 1937. Believing that muscu... ...
