Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[1997], ©1997.
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Physical Description: | xvi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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.