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Never Satisfied : a cultural history of diets, fantasies, and fat / Hillel Schwartz.

Van Pelt Library RM222.2 .S357 1990
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-
Contributor:
Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Weight loss--Social aspects--United States--History.
Weight loss.
Weight loss--Social aspects.
Obesity--Social aspects.
History.
Body image--Social aspects.
United States.
Body image--Social aspects--United States--History.
Body image.
Obesity--Social aspects--United States--History.
Obesity.
Human body--Social aspects--United States--History.
Human body.
Human body--Social aspects.
Penn Provenance:
Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
Physical Description:
468 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Anchor Books Edition.
Distribution:
New York : Published by Doubleday,
Place of Publication:
New York : Anchor Books, 1990.
Contents:
Prologue: Ritual and Romance
The Thin Body and the Jacksonians
The Buoyant Body in Victorian America
The Balanced Body at Century's Turn
The Regulated Body
The Measured Body
Hearts of Darkness, Bodies of Woe
Thin Bodies, Fat Profits
Baby Fat
The Weightless Body
Fat and Happy?
Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Free Press, c1986.
Includes bibliographical references ([343]-451) and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
ISBN:
0385411588 :
OCLC:
20453058

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