- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
Part 1 The Medieval Glutton -
1. The Prestige of the Big Person -
2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind -
3. The Horizon of Fault -
4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming -
Part 2 The “Modern” Oaf -
5. The Shores of Laziness -
6. The Plural of Fat -
7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms -
8. Constraining the Flesh -
Part 3 From Oafishness to Powerlessness -
9. Inventing Nuance -
10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness -
11. Toning Up -
Part 4 The Bourgeois Belly -
12. The Weight of Figures -
13. Typology Fever -
14. From Chemistry to Energy -
15. From Energy to Diets -
Part 5 Toward the “Martyr” -
16. The Dominance of Aesthetics -
17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity -
18. The Thin Revolution -
19. Declaring “the Martyr” -
Part 6 Changes in the Contemporary Debate - Conclusion
- Index
- European Perspectives
Conclusion
Conclusion
- Chapter:
- (p.197) Conclusion
- Source:
- The Metamorphoses of Fat
- Author(s):
Georges Vigarello
, C. Jon Delogu- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This concluding chapter presents some final thoughts. It describes the changing stigmatization of the fat person over time, highlighting an important difference that traverses all these stigmatizations—the double standard between the male case where relatively big sizes are tolerated versus the female case where thinness is obligatory. It discusses the role played by differing conceptions of the body’s functioning that condition the vision of the fat person at different times. It concludes that the history of obesity is a history of intimate feelings, from the pain of obesity expressed by Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont in the eighteenth century to the advent of feelings of loss of identity and of intimate relations with a rejected body in the twentieth century.
Keywords: fat, fat people, stigma, stigmatization, obese, obesity, thinness, body
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
Part 1 The Medieval Glutton -
1. The Prestige of the Big Person -
2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind -
3. The Horizon of Fault -
4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming -
Part 2 The “Modern” Oaf -
5. The Shores of Laziness -
6. The Plural of Fat -
7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms -
8. Constraining the Flesh -
Part 3 From Oafishness to Powerlessness -
9. Inventing Nuance -
10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness -
11. Toning Up -
Part 4 The Bourgeois Belly -
12. The Weight of Figures -
13. Typology Fever -
14. From Chemistry to Energy -
15. From Energy to Diets -
Part 5 Toward the “Martyr” -
16. The Dominance of Aesthetics -
17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity -
18. The Thin Revolution -
19. Declaring “the Martyr” -
Part 6 Changes in the Contemporary Debate - Conclusion
- Index
- European Perspectives
