Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Part 1. The Medieval Glutton
5. 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 3
6. 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 10
7. 3. The Horizon of Fault 17
8. 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming 23
9. Part 2. The “Modern” Oaf
10. 5. The Shores of Laziness 33
11. 6. The Plural of Fat 45
12. 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 55
13. 8. Constraining the Flesh 64
14. Part 3. From Oafishness to Powerlessness
15. 9. Inventing Nuance 79
16. 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 90
17. 11. Toning Up 99
18. Part 4. The Bourgeois Belly
19. 12. The Weight of Figures 111
20. 13. Typology Fever 116
21. 14. From Chemistry to Energy 125
22. 15. From Energy to Diets 131
23. Part 5. Toward the “Martyr”
24. 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 141
25. 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 154
26. 18. The Thin Revolution 166
27. 19. Declaring “the Martyr” 174
28. Part 6. Changes in the Contemporary Debate
29. The Affirmation of an “Epidemic” 186
30. “Counterattacks”? 187
31. The Dynamics of Thinness, the Dynamics of Obesity 188
32. The Effects of Thinness 189
33. A “Multifactor” Universe 190
34. The Self, the Trial, and Identity 193
35. Conclusion 197
36. Notes 201
37. Index 249
38. Backmatter 275