Fat History : : Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West / / Peter N. Stearns.
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryThe modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture, as evidenced by the compulsion to stay thin, or at least to profess a desire to become thin. Dieting, weight consciousness and widespread hostility to obesity...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- New Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I. American Fat
- 1. The Turning Point
- 2. The Medical Path: Physicians and Faddists
- 3. Fat as a Turn-of-the-Century Target: Why?
- PART II. Intensification of the Culture, 1920-1990S: Expiation and Its Limits
- 4. The Misogynist Phase: 1920S-1960S
- 5. Stepping up the Pace: Old Motives, New Methods
- 6. Fat City: American Weight Gains in the Twentieth Century
- PART III. The French Regime
- 7. The Evolution of Weight Control in France
- 8. The French Regime
- 9. Atlantic Crisscross: The Franco-American Contrasts
- 10. Conclusion: The Fat's in the Fire
- Notes
- Index