Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c1997.Description: xvi, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0814780695 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- RM222.2 .S755 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
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.
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