The Metamorphoses of Fat : : A History of Obesity / / Georges Vigarello.
Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today tho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 25 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Medieval Glutton
- 1. The Prestige of the Big Person
- 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind
- 3. The Horizon of Fault
- 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming
- Part 2. The "Modern" Oaf
- 5. The Shores of Laziness
- 6. The Plural of Fat
- 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms
- 8. Constraining the Flesh
- Part 3. From Oafishness to Powerlessness
- 9. Inventing Nuance
- 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness
- 11. Toning Up
- Part 4. The Bourgeois Belly
- 12. The Weight of Figures
- 13. Typology Fever
- 14. From Chemistry to Energy
- 15. From Energy to Diets
- Part 5. Toward the "Martyr"
- 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics
- 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity
- 18. The Thin Revolution
- 19. Declaring "the Martyr"
- Part 6. Changes in the Contemporary Debate
- The Affirmation of an "Epidemic"
- "Counterattacks"?
- The Dynamics of Thinness, the Dynamics of Obesity
- The Effects of Thinness
- A "Multifactor" Universe
- The Self, the Trial, and Identity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter