BookFat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West
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Main title
- Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.
Published/Created
- New York : New York University Press, c1997.
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Description
- xvi, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 0814780695 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- 0814780709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LC classification
- RM222.2 .S755 1997
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.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-287) and index.
LCCN
- 96045878
Dewey class no.
- 613.2/509
Geographic area code
- n-us--- e-fr---
Type of material
- Book
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- FLM2015 005784
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- Not Charged