Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century : Meanings, Measures, and Representations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Amy.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overweight persons--History--19th century.

Overweight persons.

Obesity--Social aspects--History--19th century.

Obesity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This is an edited collection in fat studies in the 19th century. It is specifically a contribution to history but with a broad geographical scope. Articles cover Africa, Canada, the US, and Europe. The overarching conclusion of this collection is that there is no one way of seeing the body in this area. Weight was a concept in flux, with changing attitudes shaped by science, culture, and politics. The fat body could undoubtedly be subjected to social judgements, but not in ways that necessarily reflect current values and debates. Rather fat bodies held their own sets of meaning that reflected the context and concerns of those who embodied the physical reality of their fatness and thinness."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Enfleshment of Difference: Medicalizing and Gendering the Fat Body in the Nineteenth Century / Kristen A. Hardy

To Measure Skulls, To Measure Waists: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Health Standards / Bessie Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop

“All young things are fat if they are in health:” The Shift from Qualitative to Quantitative Assessments of Infant Weight in the Nineteenth-Century United States / V. Lynn Kennedy

Physical Culture and the Denial of Fat in fin de siècle America / Conor Heffernan

Prison Bodies: The Height and Weight of Men in Canadian Prisons 1874–1935 / Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body, 1780–1840: Representation, Commodification, and Display / Freya Gowrley

The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness / Tatiana Konrad

Visualizing the Body: The Mbopo Ritual and the Politics of Fatness in Southern Nigeria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Nsima Udo

Colonial Engorgement in the Pictorial Arts: “Fat” Uncle Sam in the Imperialist Debates, 1898–1902 / Bonnie M. Miller

Gaining in Flesh: Canadian Soldiers in the War in South Africa / Amy J. Shaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781487553401

1487553404

9781487553418

1487553412

OCLC:

1442331444