Reducing Bodies
Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America
Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68166-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68166-8 (ISBN)
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies – through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery – and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America.
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
Elizabeth M. Matelski is Assistant Professor of History at Endicott College, USA.
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The Longer the Belt Line, the Shorter the Life’: Insurance Companies and Doctors Weigh In
Re-Shaping America: The Reducing Neurosis
What Men Want: Men’s Magazines and the Girl-Next-Door
Big and) Black is Beautiful: Body Image and Expanded Beauty Ideals
Not Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings: Fighting Fat Stigma
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Tables, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-68166-0 / 1138681660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-68166-8 / 9781138681668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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