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London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019.
ISBN
9781789140965
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Life in the Wrong Place
1 The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat
2 Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination
3 Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness
4 Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath
5 Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages
6 The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat
7 Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity
8 Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat?
9 Savage Desires: ‘Primitive’ Fat and ‘Civilized’ Slenderness
10 Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence
Conclusion: Purity, Lightness and the Weight of History
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Introduction: Life in the Wrong Place
1 The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat
2 Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination
3 Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness
4 Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath
5 Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages
6 The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat
7 Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity
8 Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat?
9 Savage Desires: ‘Primitive’ Fat and ‘Civilized’ Slenderness
10 Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence
Conclusion: Purity, Lightness and the Weight of History
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index