Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat by Hillel Schwartz, Hillel Schwartz
Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat

Hillel Schwartz, Hillel Schwartz

Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat

Hillel Schwartz, Hillel Schwartz

448 pages first pub 1986 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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This light-hearted historical account of dieting is devoted to explaining the cultural fit between shared fictions about the body and the reducing methods of the era. Discussions are as follows: dieting and history; ritual and romance of dieting; ...

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