Reducing Bodies

Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

Elizabeth M. Matelski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138681668 (ISBN)

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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."

Elizabeth M. Matelski is Assistant Professor of History at Endicott College, USA.

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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-13	9781138681668 / 9781138681668
Zustand	Neuware