Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century
Introduction
Section I: Epistemologies and Philosophies
1. The Enfleshment of Difference: Medicalizing and Gendering the Fat Body in the Nineteenth Century
2. To Measure Skulls, to Measure Waists: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Health Standards
Section II: Weights and Measures
3. “All young things are fat if they are in health”:1 The Shift from Qualitative to Quantitative Assessments of Infant Weight in the Nineteenth-Century United States
4. Physical Culture and the Denial of Fat in fin de siècle America
5. Prison Bodies: The Height and Weight of Men in Canadian Prisons, 1874–1935
Section III: Cultural Representations and Constructions
6. Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body, 1780–1840: Representation, Commodification, and Display
7. The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
8. Visualizing the Body: The Mbopo Ritual and the Politics of Fatness in Southern Nigeria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Section IV: Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Body Politic
9. Colonial Engorgement in the Pictorial Arts: “Fat” Uncle Sam in the Imperialist Debates, 1898–1902
10. Gaining in Flesh: Canadian Soldiers in the War in South Africa
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index