- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 294 p. :) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Fat History (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Fat History (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0000676284
- Author
Stearns, Peter N.
- Title
Fat History [electronic resource] : Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c1997. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Project Muse.
- LCCN
96045878