Christopher E Forth
Biographic Data
| ID | 90400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher E Forth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher E |
| FAMILY NAME | Forth |
| SIGNATURE | FORTH C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Becoming Hyperborean
From the far north to the far right: White masculinity and the myth of Hyperborea
Although ancient in origin the Greek myth of Hyperborea has enjoyed a surprising afterlife in the circulation of ‘esoteric fascist’ ideas and images in online culture. By taking Hyperborea as its focus this article broadly explores the attractions of overtly mythical ideas for far-right gender politics. It maintains that the myth of Hyperborea reflects and arguably (re)produces far-right dreams of a regenerated white masculinity in a materialist …
On Fat and Fattening: Agency, Materiality and Animality in the History of Corpulence
English abstract: This essay argues that modern perceptions of the agency of fat people have been inflected by older ways of thinking about fat and fattening. This claim rests on two basic points. Firstly, the potentially encumbering materiality of fat has long been cited as preventing movement in ways that frustrate agency. Secondly, fat has implications for agency by virtue of the power relationships implied in the act of fattening, which has b…
Fat body and Fatness in material culture: "Beyond the Visual, Beyond the Human, and Even Beyond the Bodies"
When I was invited to organize the issue “Fat Fashion: Cultural Perspectives”, I had in mind to interview an international scholar whose works and studies were not translated into Portuguese. I figured this might be a way to get to know some of the excellent studies I had access to when I lived in New York as a visiting scholar at Parsons. [...]
Sentidos do corpo gordo e da gordura na cultura material: “Além Do Visual, Além Do Humano, E Até Mesmo Além Dos Corpos”
Quando fui convidada para organizar o dossiê “Fat Fashion: Perspectivas Culturais”, tive a ideia de fazer uma entrevista com algum estudioso fora do Brasil, cujas obras e estudos não estivessem traduzidos para o português. Imaginei que esta pudesse ser uma forma de conhecermos alguns dos excelentes estudos a que tive acesso quando morei em Nova York fazendo Doutorado Sanduiche na Parsons. [...]
Timothy Verhoeven. Sexual Crime, Religion and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Flamidien Affair
In studies of the early Third Republic, historians of France have often treated the 1899 murder of twelve-year-old schoolboy Gaston Foveaux as little more than a footnote, if they mention it at all. Yet this crime in the northern city of Lille was front-page national news that encapsulated the tensions and crises that had been unsettling the country for years. At the center of the controversy was the suspected killer Isaïe Hamez, a Lassalian monk…
The Fat Imaginary in Trump's America
Materially as well as metaphorically, fat is seemingly ubiquitous in Donald Trump’s America. Rather than simply a rude comment to make about someone’s appearance or capacity for self-control, the word refers to a form of matter and style of metaphor that helps structure divisions between America and the world, as well as among Americans themselves. To support this claim, this article outlines a broad cultural imagination relating to fat—a fat ima…
France and the fattened American: Animality, consumption and the logic of gavage
This article uses the controversy sparked by the 2012 California foie gras ban as springboard for conceptualizing French and Francophone objections to US cultural imperialism and the so-called “obesity epidemic.” In particular, it explores the controversial practice of force-feeding or gavage as a way of examining how ideas about feeding and fattening animalize fat people in subtle ways. It argues that, as a form of consumption involving asymmetr…
Gender, Empire, and the Politics of Regeneration
Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Margaret Cook Andersen, Regeneration through Empire: French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2015). Geoff Read, The Republic of Men: Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2014
Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation by Zrinka Stahuljak (review)
Reviewed by: Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation by Zrinka Stahuljak Christopher E. Forth Zrinka Stahuljak. Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. viii + 338 pp. Ill. $75.00 (978-0-8122-4447-2). Described as “a cultural history of medical medievalism” (p. 3), Zrinka Stahuljak’s Pornographic Ar…
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally…
Masculinités en révolution de Rousseau à Balzac
Masculinités en révolution de Rousseau à Balzac." Modern & Contemporary France, 23(1), pp. 122–123
Georges Vigarello. The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity
Since Hillel Schwartz's Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat (1986), fat has attracted some historical attention in the English-speaking world, though it was only in the late 1990s and early 2000s that work in this area really began to blossom. By then, Schwartz's study was complemented by those of historians like Peter N. Stearns and Sander L. Gilman, and such literary and cultural scholars as Elena Levy-Navarro and Am…
The qualities of fat: Bodies, history, and materiality
This article proposes that, at various historical moments, stereotypes about fat people as being corrupt, weak, and stupid have been complemented and perhaps even informed by perceptions of fat as a material substance with definite properties and qualities. In an effort to understand the formation and longevity of these three longstanding stereotypes this article submits that the material properties of fat - particularly its unctuousness, softnes…
Nobody Loves a Fat Man: Masculinity and Food in Film Noir
This article uses the proverb 'nobody loves a fat man' to examine the interplay between representations of masculinity, physique, and 'appetite' in American culture during the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to depictions of fat characters in Hollywood thrillers designated as 'film noir.' By emphasizing how fluidly the concept of 'appetite' facilitated connections between the sexual and the culinary, it argues that fat…
Spartan Mirages: Fat, Masculinity, and “Softness
Building upon previous research on structural tensions between the male body and certain features of ‘modernity’ as well as more recent inquiries into fat and gender in the West, this cross-disciplinary ‘thought piece’ argues that fatness and certain ‘masculine’ ideals have existed in a state of tension since ancient times, and that recurring references to the therapeutic violence of ‘Spartan’ techniques reflect the extent to which such ideas con…
Fat, Desire and Disgust in the Colonial Imagination
This article tracks the relatively unexamined ways in which ethnographic, travel and medical knowledge interrelated in the construction of fat stereotypes in the nineteenth century, often plotted along a temporal curve from ‘primitive’ corpulence to ‘civilized’ moderation. By showing how the complementary insights of medicine and ethnography circulated in beauty manuals, weight-loss guides and popular ethnographic books – all of which were aimed …
David Haslam and Fiona Haslam, Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine
Fat, Gluttony and Sloth reflects growing interest in and anxiety about fat in British society, and offers an interesting, if at times frustrating, take on fat and culture from ancient times to the present. Written by a physician and a medical historian, this well-illustrated and clearly written book aims to survey ‘the history and perceptions of obesity; it is not intended to engage with critical theory and analysis. ... The intention is to prese…
Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living
Journal Article Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living Get access Klaus Bergdolt, Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 366. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 2914 8. Christopher E. Forth Christopher E. Forth University of Kansas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2009, Pages 413–414…
Manhood Incorporated: Diet and the Embodiment of “Civilized” Masculinity
Employing an interdisciplinary framework, this article attempts to 'think' the history of men and masculinities in a transnational way by connecting the distinctive experiences of specific national cultures to the broader anxieties about modern civilization that exercised Westerners generally. As a contribution to a more comprehensive analysis of the male body, it argues that the consumption of food and other ingesta was thought to have considera…
Four Faces of Civilization, c. 1500–1750
Masculinity in the Modern West
Civilization and its Malcontents: Masculinity and the Body in the Modern West
Introduction Civilization and its Malcontents
Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain , by Elizabeth Green Musselman
Fat, Desire and Disgust in the Colonial Imagination
This article tracks the relatively unexamined ways in which ethnographic, travel and medical knowledge interrelated in the construction of fat stereotypes in the nineteenth century, often plotted along a temporal curve from ‘primitive’ corpulence to ‘civilized’ moderation. By showing how the complementary insights of medicine and ethnography circulated in beauty manuals, weight-loss guides and popular ethnographic books – all of which were aimed …
The qualities of fat: Bodies, history, and materiality
This article proposes that, at various historical moments, stereotypes about fat people as being corrupt, weak, and stupid have been complemented and perhaps even informed by perceptions of fat as a material substance with definite properties and qualities. In an effort to understand the formation and longevity of these three longstanding stereotypes this article submits that the material properties of fat - particularly its unctuousness, softnes…
Manhood Incorporated: Diet and the Embodiment of “Civilized” Masculinity
Employing an interdisciplinary framework, this article attempts to 'think' the history of men and masculinities in a transnational way by connecting the distinctive experiences of specific national cultures to the broader anxieties about modern civilization that exercised Westerners generally. As a contribution to a more comprehensive analysis of the male body, it argues that the consumption of food and other ingesta was thought to have considera…
The Fat Imaginary in Trump's America
Materially as well as metaphorically, fat is seemingly ubiquitous in Donald Trump’s America. Rather than simply a rude comment to make about someone’s appearance or capacity for self-control, the word refers to a form of matter and style of metaphor that helps structure divisions between America and the world, as well as among Americans themselves. To support this claim, this article outlines a broad cultural imagination relating to fat—a fat ima…
Nobody Loves a Fat Man: Masculinity and Food in Film Noir
This article uses the proverb 'nobody loves a fat man' to examine the interplay between representations of masculinity, physique, and 'appetite' in American culture during the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to depictions of fat characters in Hollywood thrillers designated as 'film noir.' By emphasizing how fluidly the concept of 'appetite' facilitated connections between the sexual and the culinary, it argues that fat…
Spartan Mirages: Fat, Masculinity, and “Softness
Building upon previous research on structural tensions between the male body and certain features of ‘modernity’ as well as more recent inquiries into fat and gender in the West, this cross-disciplinary ‘thought piece’ argues that fatness and certain ‘masculine’ ideals have existed in a state of tension since ancient times, and that recurring references to the therapeutic violence of ‘Spartan’ techniques reflect the extent to which such ideas con…
Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living
Journal Article Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living Get access Klaus Bergdolt, Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 366. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 2914 8. Christopher E. Forth Christopher E. Forth University of Kansas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2009, Pages 413–414…
Nietzsche, Decadence, and Regeneration in France, 1891-95
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2709862?origin=crossref&seq=2#page_…
Booker T. Washington and the 1905 Niagara Movement Conference
Booker T. Washington and the 1905 Niagara Movement Conference
Nietzsche, Decadence, and Regeneration in France, 1891-95
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2709862?origin=crossref&seq=2#page_…
On the prejudices of philosophers: French philosophical discourse on Nietzsche, 1898?1908
Intellectual Anarchy and Imaginary Otherness: Gender, Class, and Pathology in French Intellectual Discourse, 1890-1900
This article uses the concept of “intellectual anarchy” to access the matrix of tensions and representations comprising French intellectual discourse at the turn of the century. It shows that, by accusing one another of fomenting intellectual anarchy, scholars, critics, and poets betrayed masculinist and elitist anxieties about gender and class which, while traditionally depicted as external to such “disinterested” pursuits, emerge as important o…
Bodies of Christ: Gender, Jewishness and Religious Imagery in the Dreyfus Affair
A1 Australian National University, Australia
The Scholar, the Soldier, and the Jew: Three Characters in Search of the Phallus
Adventures of the naked Truth: The Dreyfus Affair and the female form
Cultures of the Abdomen
We live in a world obsessed with abdomens. Whether we call it the belly, tummy, or stomach, we take this area of the body for granted as an object of our gaze, the subject of our obsessions, and the l
Invalid Texts
Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race, and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain , by Elizabeth Green Musselman
Four Faces of Civilization, c. 1500–1750
Masculinity in the Modern West
Civilization and its Malcontents: Masculinity and the Body in the Modern West
Introduction Civilization and its Malcontents
Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living
Journal Article Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living Get access Klaus Bergdolt, Well-being: A Cultural History of Healthy Living, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 366. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 2914 8. Christopher E. Forth Christopher E. Forth University of Kansas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2009, Pages 413–414…
Manhood Incorporated: Diet and the Embodiment of “Civilized” Masculinity
Employing an interdisciplinary framework, this article attempts to 'think' the history of men and masculinities in a transnational way by connecting the distinctive experiences of specific national cultures to the broader anxieties about modern civilization that exercised Westerners generally. As a contribution to a more comprehensive analysis of the male body, it argues that the consumption of food and other ingesta was thought to have considera…
David Haslam and Fiona Haslam, Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine
Fat, Gluttony and Sloth reflects growing interest in and anxiety about fat in British society, and offers an interesting, if at times frustrating, take on fat and culture from ancient times to the present. Written by a physician and a medical historian, this well-illustrated and clearly written book aims to survey ‘the history and perceptions of obesity; it is not intended to engage with critical theory and analysis. ... The intention is to prese…
Spartan Mirages: Fat, Masculinity, and “Softness
Building upon previous research on structural tensions between the male body and certain features of ‘modernity’ as well as more recent inquiries into fat and gender in the West, this cross-disciplinary ‘thought piece’ argues that fatness and certain ‘masculine’ ideals have existed in a state of tension since ancient times, and that recurring references to the therapeutic violence of ‘Spartan’ techniques reflect the extent to which such ideas con…
Fat, Desire and Disgust in the Colonial Imagination
This article tracks the relatively unexamined ways in which ethnographic, travel and medical knowledge interrelated in the construction of fat stereotypes in the nineteenth century, often plotted along a temporal curve from ‘primitive’ corpulence to ‘civilized’ moderation. By showing how the complementary insights of medicine and ethnography circulated in beauty manuals, weight-loss guides and popular ethnographic books – all of which were aimed …
The qualities of fat: Bodies, history, and materiality
This article proposes that, at various historical moments, stereotypes about fat people as being corrupt, weak, and stupid have been complemented and perhaps even informed by perceptions of fat as a material substance with definite properties and qualities. In an effort to understand the formation and longevity of these three longstanding stereotypes this article submits that the material properties of fat - particularly its unctuousness, softnes…
Nobody Loves a Fat Man: Masculinity and Food in Film Noir
This article uses the proverb 'nobody loves a fat man' to examine the interplay between representations of masculinity, physique, and 'appetite' in American culture during the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to depictions of fat characters in Hollywood thrillers designated as 'film noir.' By emphasizing how fluidly the concept of 'appetite' facilitated connections between the sexual and the culinary, it argues that fat…
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally…
Masculinités en révolution de Rousseau à Balzac
Masculinités en révolution de Rousseau à Balzac." Modern & Contemporary France, 23(1), pp. 122–123
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