Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West /
The 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 form one of the fundamental themes of modern life in coun...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The turning point
- The medical path : physicians and faddists
- Fat as a turn-of-the-century target : why?
- The misogynist phase : 1920s-1960s
- Stepping up the pace : old motives, new methods
- Fat city : American weight gains in the twentieth century
- The evolution of weight control in France
- The French regime
- Atlantic crisscross : the Franco-American contrasts
- Conclusion : the fat's in the fire.