ISBN:
9780231535304
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Series Statement:
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Body weight -- Social aspects -- History
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Obesity -- Social aspects -- History
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Body weight ; Social aspects ; History..
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Obesity ; Social aspects ; History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: THE MEDIEVAL GLUTTON -- 1. The Prestige of the Big Person -- Spontaneous Vigor -- What Insults? -- From Big to Very Big -- 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind -- Matters of Fat -- The Deviations of Wind and Water -- Gout and Gout Sufferers -- The "Simplicity" of Evacuations -- 3. The Horizon of Fault -- The Clerical Model -- The Medical Model -- The Courtly Model -- 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming -- The Ascendancy of Images -- A Social Distinction? -- Lifestyles and Conflicts -- The "Laborious" Place of Beauty -- PART 2: THE "MODERN" OAF -- 5. The Shores of Laziness -- Modern" Activity and Passivity -- From Private Insult to Pulic Code -- Resistances and Fascinations -- The Refusal of All Skinniness -- 6. The Plural of Fat -- Dramatizing the Threat -- Fear of Apoplexy -- Fat Talk, an Abstract Discourse -- Specifying Hydropsy -- Specifying the Excess of Gout -- 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms -- Images and Realism of Features -- The Choice of Rubens -- The Power and Powerlessness of Words -- 8. Constraining the Flesh -- The Beginning of an Evaluation -- Only the "High" Size -- Drying Out -- Vinegar and Chalk -- Belts, Blades, and Corsets -- PART 3: FROM OAFISHNESS TO POWERLESSNESS: The Enlightenment and Sensibility -- 9. Inventing Nuance -- Tireless" Measuring and "Fruitless" Measuring -- Waist or Weight? -- Inventing the Means -- The First Specifications of Forms -- Masculine "Gravity" and Social "Gravity -- 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness -- Introducing a New Word, Obesity -- The Bad Symptom: Insensitivity -- The Criticism of the Affluent -- The Big Bad Husband -- 11. Toning Up -- The Virtue of "Tonics" -- The Virtue of "Excitants" -- Electric Dreams -- The Nerve Regimen -- Plants or Meats? -- The Chemistry Revolution -- PART 4: THE BOURGEOIS BELLY -- 12. The Weight of Figures.
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