ISBN:
9781135140779
,
1135140774
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
,
illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Popenoe, Rebecca Feeding Desire : Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Muslim women Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Women, Arab Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Overweight women Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Sex customs Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Body image in women Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Human body Social aspects
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Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
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Muslim women
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Women, Arab
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Overweight women
;
Sex customs
;
Body image in women
;
Human body Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Body image in women
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Human body ; Social aspects
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Manners and customs
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Muslim women
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Overweight women
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Sex customs
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Women, Arab
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Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger) Social life and customs
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Africa
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Azaouak Valley
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Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger) Social life and customs
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Africa ; Azaouak Valley
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meaning
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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