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Cultures of the Abdomen - Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
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Cultures of the Abdomen - Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)
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We live in a world obsessed with abdomens. Whether we call it the
belly, tummy, or stomach, we take this area of the body for granted
as an object of our gaze, the subject of our obsessions, and the
location of deeply felt desires. Diet, nutrition, and exercise all
play critical roles in the development of our body images and thus
our sense of self, not least because how we are made to feel about
bodies (both our own and those of others) is often grounded in
dietary and lifestyle choices. 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.
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