TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stearns,Peter N.
TI  - Fat history: bodies and beauty in the modern West 
SN  - 0814780709
AV  - RM222.2. S755 1997
U1  - 613.2509 
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Weight loss
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - France
KW  - Body image
KW  - Fat
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index; The turning point -- The medical path : physicians and faddists -- Fat as a turn-of-the-century target : why? -- The misogynist phase : 1920s-1960s -- Stepping up the pace : old motives, new methods -- Fat city : American weight gains in the twentieth century -- The evolution of weight control in France -- The French regime -- Atlantic crisscross : the Franco-American contrasts -- Conclusion : the fat's in the fire
ER  -