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Feeding desire : fatness, beauty, and sexuality among a Saharan people /

While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popenoe, Rebecca, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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