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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-
- 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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