Never Satisfied A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat

A stimulating history of slimness, fatness, dieting, & weight during the past 150 years of American history. The book¿s scope is impressive, touching on questions of politics, beauty & fashion, medicine, technology, leisure & exercise, home economics, business & marketing, & ethics. This is a book about Too Much, about the newest problem on the academic plate, the Problem of Abundance -- the moral, psychological & physical anxieties provoked by the spectacle, the marketing, the mere existence of overproduction. ¿This is evocative social history, done with a light touch, written with wit & panache.¿ ¿Lively & insistent.¿ Illustrations.