The metamorphoses of fat: a history of obesity
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THE METAMORPHOSES OF
FAT
A History of Obesity
Georges Vigarello
Translated from the French by C Jon Delogu
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
Introduction ix
PART 1 THE MEDIEVAL GLUTTON
1 The Prestige of the Big Person
Spontaneous Vigor 3
What Insults? 6
From Big to Very Big 7
2 Liquids, Fat, and Wind
Matters of Fat 10
The Deviations of Wind and Water 12
Gout and Gout Sufferers 14
The “Simplicity” of Evacuations 15
3 The Horizon of Fault
The Clerical Model 18
The Medical Model 19
The Courtly Model 21
4 The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming
The Ascendancy of Images 24
A Social Distinction? 25
Lifestyles and Conflicts 26
The “Laborious” Place of Beauty 28
vi Contents
PART 2 THE “MODERN” OAF
5 The Shores of Laziness
“Modern” Activity and Passivity 33
From Private Insult to Public Code 36
Resistances and Fascinations 38
The Refusal of All Skinniness 41
6 The Plural of Fat
Dramatizing the Threat 45
Fear of Apoplexy 47
Fat Talk, an Abstract Discourse 49
Specifying Hydropsy 51
Specifying the Excess of Gout 53
7 Exploring Images, Defining Terms
Images and Realism of Features 55
The Choice of Rubens 57
The Power and Powerlessness of Words 59
8 Constraining the Flesh
The Beginning of an Evaluation 64
Only the “High” Size 67
Diets and “Modern” Restraints 69
Drying Out 71
Vinegar and Chalk 73
Belts, Blades, and Corsets 75
PART 3 FROM OAFISHNESS TO POWERLESSNESS:
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND SENSIBILITY
9 Inventing Nuance
“Tireless” Measuring and “Fruitless” Measuring 79
Waist or Weight? 81
Inventing the Means 82
The First Specifications of Forms 84
Masculine “Gravity” and Social “Gravity” 87
10 Stigmatizing Powerlessness
Introducing a New Word, Obesity 91
The Bad Symptom: Insensitivity 94
The Criticism of the Affluent 95
The Big Bad Husband 97
Contents vii
11 Toning Up 99
The Virtue of “Tonics” 99
The Virtue of “Excitants” 101
Electric Dreams 102
The Nerve Regimen 103
Plants or Meats? 105
The Chemistry Revolution 106
PART 4 THE BOURGEOIS BELLY
12 The Weight of Figures
The Presence of Numbers 111
Figuring the Waist-Weight Relation 112
The Question of Self-Weighing 113
13 Typology Fever
“Gastrophoric” Men, Adipose Women 117
The Bourgeois and the Avowed Belly 120
The Bourgeois and the Lampooned Belly 121
Romantically Thin? 123
14 From Chemistry to Energy
The Aqueous and the Adipose: New Distinctions 125
Fat and Fire 127
Fat and “Morbid Imminence” 129
15 From Energy to Diets
The Consequences of Energy 131
The Question of Creating an “Art of Living Well” 133
The Archaic and the Modern 134
The “Misfortune” and Me: The New Status of Obesity 135
PART 5 TOWARD THE “MARTYR”
16 The Dominance of Aesthetics 141
The Spread of Weighing 142
The First Conflicts Between Charts 143
The Exposure of Bodies 145
The Ascendancy of Women’s Hips 146
From the Masculine Waist to the Muscular “Discovery” 148
From Aesthetics to the Conflict of Images 151
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17 Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity
Forms and Numerically Measured Degrees 155
Retarding Nutrition and Excess Nutrition 156
The Degenerative Obsession 158
The Explosion of Diets 159
The Socializing and Chemistry of Spa Life 162
The Ascendancy of Advertisers 164
18 The Thin Revolution
The “Defect of Civilization” 167
The Dashing Slender Male 168
The Dashing Slender Female 169
The “Graduated” Anatomy 170
The Creation and the “Monstrous” 171
19 Declaring “the Martyr”
Revolutionizing the First Degrees 175
The Multiplication of Pathologies 176
The Multiplication of Therapies 177
The Evidence of Therapeutic Failures 179
Between Trial and Martyr 181
PART 6 CHANGES IN THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE:
AN IDENTITY PROBLEM AND AN INSIDIOUS EVIL
The Affirmation of an “Epidemic” 186
“Counterattacks”? 187
The Dynamics of Thinness, the Dynamics of Obesity 188
The Effects of Thinness 189
A “Multifactor” Universe 190
The Self, the Trial, and Identity 193
Conclusion
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Notes 201 |
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