Sander L Gilman

Fat Boys

A Slim Book

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities; Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Nebraska 1996); and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780803271234
• ISBN-10: 0803271239
• Artikelnr.: 29923985

Autorenporträt

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities; Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Nebraska 1996); and Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Fat Is a Man's Issue
1. Fat Boys in the Cultural History of the West
2. Fat Boys Writing and Writing Fat Boys
3. Patient Zero: Falstaff
4. How Fat Detectives Think (And Fat Villains Act)
5. Fat Ballplayers and the Bodies of Fat Men
Conclusion: Cutting into the Future of Fat Boys
Notes
Index