Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Menti
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English Pages 283 [306] Year 2019
Table of contents :
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The Original Epidemic
Part I: The Beauty of the Robust
1. Being Venus
2. Plump Women and Thin, Fine Men
Part II: Race, Weight, God, and Country
3. The Rise of the Big Black Woman
4. Birth of the Ascetic Aesthetic
5. American Beauty: The Reign of the Slender Aesthetic
6. Thinness as American Exceptionalism
Part III: Doctors Weigh In
7. Good Health to Uplift the Race
8. Fat, Revisited
Epilogue: The Obesity Epidemic
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author