Abstract
During the first ten years of its publication, the "Answers to Correspondents" column of The Girl's Own Paper frequently included advice and information about medical subjects. Despite prevailing cultural attitudes and medical opinions that constructed women as existing in a helplessly and permanently compromised state of health, the Girl's Own Paper 's correspondence columns generally offered a more optimistic sense of the possibility of good health and of readers' ability to take control of their own health. The tensions between these two constructions of women's health are never fully resolved, however, as the Girl's Own Paper 's advice to its readers wavers between conventional and progressive viewpoints.
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