Fat History
Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10023376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesse F Battan (California State University, Fullerton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 194-194 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Fat history: Bodies and beauty in the modern West, Peter N Stearns, 1997 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2568446 |
| OpenAlex | W2046583683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Journal Article Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. By Peter N. Stearns. (New York: New York University Press, 1997. xvi, 294 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-8147-8069-5) Get access Jesse F. Battan Jesse F. Battan California State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 194–196, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568446 Published: 01 June 1998
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · State (computer science · Classics · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History
Alterity In/Of Happiness
The many meanings of obesity now and then
I see her being obesed
Ills from the womb? A critical examination of clinical guidelines for obesity in pregnancy
Profile
Sized Out
Medical doctors’ attitudes and beliefs about diet and health are more like those of their lay countrymen (France, Germany, Italy, UK and USA) than those of doctors in other countries
Cross-national investigation of the drivers of obesity
Defining, regulating and using saccharin at the outset of the industrial food era (1888–1914)
From the Bookshelf of a Sociologist of Diagnosis
Fat as a Floating Signifier
Weighing Both Sides
Frustrated Fatshionistas
Fat, Desire and Disgust in the Colonial Imagination
How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America
Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and Body History
“How dare you hoard fat when our nation needs it?”
Beauty and distinction? The evaluation of appearance and cultural capital in five European countries
Framing the Latin American nutrition transition in a historical perspective, 1850 to the present
The Environmental Account of Obesity
Differences between European Americans and African Americans in the Association between Child Obesity and Disrupted Parenting
Morality and Health
Social Problem Construction and National Context
Think of the Hippopotamus
Behavioral History
Conclusion
Regime Change
Food and life, pleasure and worry, among American college students
Repercussões sociais no hábito alimentar dos obesos
Broad Themes of Difference between French and Americans in Attitudes to Food and Other Life Domains
Religion and Fat = Protestant Christianity and Weight Loss? On the Intersections of Fat Studies and Religious Studies
“The Bigger, the Better”
Is There Really “More to Love”
“Fattening” Literary History
Guilt-Free and Sinfully Delicious
God’s Diets
Butchering the fat body
The Christian Dieter’s Dilemma
My Body is a Testimony
Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs
Feminism and the Invisible Fat Man
Nobody Loves a Fat Man
Digestive Politics in Russia
Future notes
Bessie smith
The Shifting Salience of Skin Color for Educational Attainment
Retracted Article
Reading American Fat in France
The qualities of fat
Cigarette smoking as a stigma
Making Liberal Objects
Disciplining Corpulence
Injecting care and negotiating pleasures with weight loss pharmaceuticals
Internet marketing of bariatric surgery
Affect as Community Connectedness
Coming Out as Fat
Now my ‘old self’ is thin”
All the News that's Fat to Print
From Average to Ideal
Plump or Corpulent? Lean or Gaunt? Historical Categories of Bodily Health in Nineteenth-Century Thought
Body Mass Index, masculinities and moral worth
Medical modelling of obesity
A medida da gordura
A cultura na ponta do garfo
Fearing the Black Body
Weighty subjects
The Body Beautiful
What to do with the “Tubby Hubby”?“Obesity,” the Crisis of Masculinity, and the Nuclear Family in Early Cold War Canada
L'alimentation entre plaisir(s) et nécessité(s) en France et aux États-Unis
Making Broad Shoulders
The Narrowing of American Bodies
Apostles of Abstinence
Fat Christians and Fit Elites
Advancing the study of health inequality
Obesity and the labor market
Body mass and wages
Height, weight, and entry earnings of female graduates in Taiwan
Racial differences in the influence of female adolescents’ body size on dating and sex
Exploring the Relationship Between Parental Concern and the Management of Childhood Obesity
Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy
Alcohol, tobacco, obesity and the new public health
Body Dissatisfaction among Female University Students
Let Them Eat Beans? Class and American Food Discourse during the Progressive Era
The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire
Fat Studies
Health, Moralization, and Negotiating Judgment in Two Evangelical Ministries
A Taste of Louisiana
Negotiating Popular Obesity Discourses in Adolescence
The Male Body, Beauty and Aesthetics in Modern British Culture
Weighty Words
Bariatric surgery as prophylaxis
From self-control to self-improvement
Abhorreas pinguedinem’
Our metrics, ourselves
Work, burn, eat
Fashion Plus”
Slimming the Female Body
You Are What You Wear
Marketing health education
Revisioning Fat Lesbian Subjects in Contemporary Lesbian Periodicals
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |