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Routledge Reducing Bodies: Female Figure & Mass Culture Postwar America

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Reducing Bodies examines how women reshaped their bodies through diet, exercise, and surgery in postwar America, revealing deeper truths about gender, health, and race during this transformative era. This Routledge study draws on novel sources including insurance industry records to explore how changing beauty standards reflected broader social dynamics. The book provides essential historical context for understanding the emergence of fat studies and contemporary obesity debates, connecting personal body practices to larger cultural forces. It offers scholars, students, and readers interested in gender history, cultural studies, and health a compelling analysis of how mass culture shaped women's relationships with their own bodies and identities in the decades following World War II.

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Routledge academic study drawing on untapped insurance industry records and novel historical sources to document postwar body transformation practices.

Explores how women used reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery to refashion their bodies in response to shifting postwar beauty standards.

Contextualizes the historical emergence of fat studies and contemporary obesity epidemic discourse within postwar American culture.

Examines intersections of gender, health, and race in postwar America through the lens of women's body practices and cultural expectations.

Provides scholarly analysis of mass culture's influence on female identity and body image during the pivotal postwar period.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
30 May 2017
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12 December 2016

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