Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West by Peter N. Stearns

Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

Peter N. Stearns

294 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryThe modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture, as evidenced by the compulsion to stay thin, or at least to profess a desire to become thin. Dieting, weig...

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