5. American Beauty

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I: THE BEAUTY OF THE ROBUST
5. 1. Being Venus 15
6. 2. Plump Women and Thin, Fine Men 42
7. PART II: RACE, WEIGHT, GOD AND COUNTRY
8. 3. The Rise of the Big Black Woman 67
9. 4. Birth of the Ascetic Aesthetic 99
10. 5. American Beauty 122
11. 6. Thinness as American Exceptionalism 147
12. PART III: DOCTORS WEIGH IN
13. 7. Good Health to Uplift the Race 169
14. 8. Fat, Revisited 187
15. Acknowledgments 213
16. Notes 215
17. Selected Bibliography 245
18. Index 257
19. About the Author 283