Fat : a cultural history of the stuff of life / Christopher E. Forth.
Forth, Christopher E., author.
2019
RA645.O23 F67 2019eb
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Title Fat : a cultural history of the stuff of life / Christopher E. Forth.
Author Forth, Christopher E., author.
ISBN 9781789140965 (electronic book)
178914096X (electronic book)
9781789140620
1789140625
Published London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (358 pages:) : illustrations.
Call Number RA645.O23 F67 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.196398
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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One. The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat
Two. Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination
Three. Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness
Four. Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath
Five. Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages
Six. The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat
Seven. Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity
Eight. Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat?
Nine. Savage Desires: 'Primitive' Fat and 'Civilized' Slenderness
Ten. Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence.

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