Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth CenturyAuthor: Amy Shaw ISBN: 9781487553395 Publisher: University of Toronto Press Year first published: 03 Jun 2025 Pages: 288 Format: Hardback In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates discussion and analyses of fatness, highlighting how corporeal expectations fit into larger social systems and showing how interpretations have shifted over time. This

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