GREEK SCULPTURE: FUNCTION, MATERIALS, AND TECHNIQUES IN THE ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL PERIODS

There was also a link from dress reform to physical fitness and a greater emphasis on health. Writers on dress and hygiene reform placed emphasis on the need for women to be fit and active for their roles as future mothers of a healthy nation and race of people. Pamela Gilbert argues in The Citizen’s Body that the discourse of hygienic and sanitary reform was articulated as a form of control and was linked to greater socio-political questions: The management of the social body through public medicine and discourses of health became the principal discourse with which to...