Reducing Bodies

Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Elizabeth M. Matelski ISBN: 9781134810277
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: May 25, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Elizabeth M. Matelski
ISBN: 9781134810277
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: May 25, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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."

 

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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. 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."

 

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