Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Changing conceptions of the fat body in Western history / Elena Levy-Navarro
- Fat is a fictional issue : the novel and the rise of weight-watching / Pat Rogers
- "Kill the pig!" : Lord of the flies, "Piggy," and anti-fat discourse / Zeynep Z. Atayurt
- "The fattest clubman in London" : H.G. Wells's "The truth about Pyecraft" and the culture of reducing in England at the turn of the twentieth century / Nikole King
- Fosco's fat drag : performing the Victorian fat man in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Joyce L. Huff
- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley
- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner
- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans
- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro
- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino
- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.