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Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West
Title:
Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West
Author:
Stearns, Peter N.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, [1997]

©1997
Physical Description:
xvi, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780814780695

9780814780701
Format :
Book