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Author Stearns, Peter N.

Title Fat history : bodies and beauty in the modern West / Peter N. Stearns.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1997]
©1997

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  613.25 S799F    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
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.
Subject Weight loss -- United States -- History.
Weight loss -- France -- History.
Body image -- United States -- History.
Body image -- France -- History.
Fat -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Fat -- Social aspects -- France -- History.
Obesity.
Weight Loss.
Body Image.
ISBN 0814780695 clothbound alkaline paper
0814780709 paperback alkaline paper
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