Vigarello The Metamorphoses of Fat

A History of Obesity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-53530-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vigarello, Georges

Weitere Mitwirkende

Delogu, C. Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 1
1. The Prestige of the Big Person
2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind
3. The Horizon of Fault
4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming
Part 2
5. The Shores of Laziness
6. The Plural of Fat
7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms
8. Constraining the Flesh
Part 3
9. Inventing Nuance
10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness
11. Toning Up
Part 4
12. The Weight of Figures
13. Typology Fever
14. From Chemistry to Energy
15. From Energy to Diets
Part 5
16. The Dominance of Aesthetics
17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity
18. The Thin Revolution
19. Declaring "The Martyr"
Part 6
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Georges Vigarello is research director at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published prolifically on topics ranging from Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France Since the Middle Ages (1988) to The History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (2001) and The History of the Body: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (2011).

C. Jon Delogu is university professor in the Department of English at the Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3 in France. He is also the translator of the Columbia University Press books Murder in Byzantium: A Novel (2006) by Julia Kristeva and After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (2003).