Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People by Rebecca Popenoe

Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

Rebecca Popenoe

256 pages first pub 2003 (view editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify gir...

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