Fat : a cultural history of the stuff of life /: a cultural history of the stuff of life. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher E. Forth.
• Authors: Forth, Christopher E
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction: Life in the Wrong Place; One: The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat; Two: Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination; Three: Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness; Four: Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath; Five: Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages; Six: The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat; Seven: Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity; Eight: Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat? Nine: Savage Desires: 'Primitive' Fat and 'Civilized' SlendernessTen: Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence; Conclusion: Purity, Lightness and the Weight of History; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (358 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 362.196398; Obesity -- Social aspects; Fat -- Social aspects; Overweight persons; Obesity -- history; Fat -- Social aspects; Overweight persons; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789140965
• Related ISBNs: 178914096X; 1789140625; 9781789140620
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.