Cultures of the abdomen
Subtitle: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world
By: edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne.
Contributors: Forth, Christopher E.; Carden-Coyne, Ana.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781403965219
Subjects: Abdomen -- Social aspects; Abdomen -- History; Food habits; Fat; Obesity
Other titles: Diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world
Description: "Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of social, cultural, and medical ideas about the stomach and related organs since the seventeenth century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporary obsessions with hunger, diet, fat, indigestion, and excretion. It locates that history from dietary ideals in early modern Europe to the vexing issue of American fat in the twenty-first century, surveying along the way developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The belly and beyond : body, self, and culture in ancient and modern times / Ana Carden-Coyne and Christopher E. Forth; title: The physiology of hypochrondria in eighteenth-century Britain / Fredrik Albritton Johnson; title: Corporeal economies : work and waste in nineteenth-century constructions of alimentation / Joyce L. Huff; title: "Kakao" and "kaka" : chocolate and the excretory imagination of nineteenth-century Europe / Alison Moore; title: American guts and military manhood / Ana Carden-Coyne; title: The Philosophe's stomach : hedonism, hypochondria, and the intellectural in Enlightenment France / Anne C. Vila; title: Coleridge's dreaming gut : digestion, genius, hypochondria / George Rousseau; title: It's 'alimentary' : Feuerbach and the dietetics of antisemitism / Jay Geller; title: Tolstoy's body : diet, desire, and denial / Ronald L. LeBlanc; title: Weight loss in the age of reason / Ken Albala; title: Useless and pernicious matter : corpulence in eighteenth-century England / Lucia Dacome; title: The belly of Paris : the decline of the fat man in fin-de-siècle France / Christopher E. Forth; title: How fat detectives think / Sander L. Gilman; title: Fat in America / Peter N. Stearns.