University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository History ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations Summer 7-12-2019 Beach Bodies: Gender and the Beach in American Culture, 1880-1940 Margaret Elena DePond University of New Mexico - Main Campus Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds Part of the Cultural History Commons, History of Gender Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation DePond, Margaret Elena. "Beach Bodies: Gender and the Beach in American Culture, 1880-1940." (2019). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/265 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in History ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Margaret DePond Candidate History Department This dissertation is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication: Approved by the Dissertation Committee: Virginia Scharff, chairperson L. Durwood Ball Shannon Withycombe Cathleen Cahill i BEACH BODIES: GENDER AND THE BEACH IN AMERICAN CULTURE, 1880–1940 by MARGARET DEPOND B.A., History, Dominican University of California, 2010 M.A., History, Claremont Graduate University, 2012 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico July 2019 ii For my family. And for Brandon. Who followed me to the desert so I could write about the sea. iii Acknowledgements I have many thanks to give for the help I received writing this dissertation and finishing my graduate degree.