Phoebe’s Reviews > All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today > Status Update

...then, as now, the concerns of upper-class women received a disproportionate amount of attention, both medically and culturally. p. 41

"Worse than crime--it is folly," they concluded, "for beauty is destroyed by the process which is intended to increase it." ...that's about one and a half complaints as to the impact of corseting on women's health, and three complaints that it makes them hideous. p. 42