Weighty Issues

Samantha Barbas

doi:10.1353/aq.2004.0049

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Weighty Issues

Samantha Barbas

American quarterly, Vol.56(4), pp.1115-1124

12/01/2004

DOI: 10.1353/aq.2004.0049

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Abstract

Barbas reviews three books on dieting and women's body image, including Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930 by Margaret Lowe, Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco, and Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery by Virginia Blum.

Nonfiction

Plastic Surgery

Surgery

Blum, Virginia

Book reviews

Braziel, Jana Evans

LeBesco, Kathleen

Lowe, Margaret

Personal appearance

Weight control

Women

Details

Title: Subtitle: Weighty Issues
Creators: Samantha Barbas
Resource Type: Review
Publication Details: American quarterly, Vol.56(4), pp.1115-1124
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2004.0049
ISSN: 0003-0678
eISSN: 1080-6490
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; College Park
Language: English
Date published: 12/01/2004
Academic Unit: History; Law Faculty
Record Identifier: 9985217041302771

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