"A mighty girl, fat, magnificent!"
Subtitle: the freak show fat lady, obesity discourse, and the gaze in the United States, 1840-1940
By: by Stephanie Videka Sherman
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Obesity in women; History; Overweight women; Obesity; Freak shows; Social aspects
Notes: Thesis (A.B., Honors in the History of Science)--Harvard University, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [79]-85).

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize--Harvard University, 2005.