Reducing Bodies

Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-68164-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matelski, Elizabeth M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Creating the Cultural Ideal: Hollywood and the Fashion Industry

- We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust’: Uplifting the Feminine Breast

- The Longer the Belt Line, the Shorter the Life’: Insurance Companies and Doctors Weigh In

- Re-Shaping America: The Reducing Neurosis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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