Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. SECTION I Epistemologies and Philosophies
7. 1 The Enfleshment of Difference: Medicalizing and Gendering the Fat Body in the Nineteenth Century 17
8. 2 To Measure Skulls, to Measure Waists: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Health Standards 41
9. SECTION II Weights and Measures
10. 3 “All young things are fat if they are in health”:1 The Shift from Qualitative to Quantitative Assessments of Infant Weight in the Nineteenth-Century United States 61
11. 4 Physical Culture and the Denial of Fat in fin de siècle America 86
12. 5 Prison Bodies: The Height and Weight of Men in Canadian Prisons, 1874–1935 107
13. SECTION III Cultural Representations and Constructions
14. 6 Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body, 1780–1840: Representation, Commodification, and Display 137
15. 7 The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 157
16. 8 Visualizing the Body: The Mbopo Ritual and the Politics of Fatness in Southern Nigeria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 172
17. SECTION IV Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Body Politic
18. 9 Colonial Engorgement in the Pictorial Arts: “Fat” Uncle Sam in the Imperialist Debates, 1898–1902 197
19. 10 Gaining in Flesh: Canadian Soldiers in the War in South Africa 224
20. Conclusion 241
21. Bibliography 245
22. List of Contributors 267
23. Index 271