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Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West

Title
Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
Author
Stearns, Peter N.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c1997.

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Description
xvi, 294 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Weight loss > United States > History
  • Weight loss > France > History
  • Body image > United States > History
  • Body image > France > History
  • Fat > Social aspects > History. > United States
  • Fat > Social aspects > History. > France
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 98-2474
ISBN
  • 0814780695 (clothbound : alk. paper)
  • 0814780709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
96045878
OCLC
35829805
Author
Stearns, Peter N.
Title
Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 98-2474
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