Elizabeth M Matelski

Reducing Bodies

Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

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Produktbeschreibung

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies - through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery - and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781138681644
• ISBN-10: 1138681644
• Artikelnr.: 69947791

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth M. Matelski is Assistant Professor of History at Endicott College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Creating the Cultural Ideal: Hollywood and the Fashion Industry
2. We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust': Uplifting the Feminine
Breast
3. The Longer the Belt Line, the Shorter the Life': Insurance Companies
and Doctors Weigh In
4. Re-Shaping America: The Reducing Neurosis
5. What Men Want: Men's Magazines and the Girl-Next-Door
6. Big and) Black is Beautiful: Body Image and Expanded Beauty Ideals
7. Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings: Fighting Fat Stigma