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5 - Eating, Obesity and Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

By
Maud Ellmann
Edited by
David Hillman  and
Ulrika Maude
David Hillman
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Ulrika Maude
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature , pp. 58 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Colls, Rachel and Evans, Bethan. ‘Symposium: Critical Geographies of Fat/Bigness/Corpulence’, Antipode 41:5 (2009) 1011–133.Google Scholar
Cooper, Charlotte. ‘Fat Studies: Mapping the field’, Sociology Compass 4:12 (2010) 1020–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Curtin, Deane W. and Heldke, Lisa M.. Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Gilman, Sandor L. Obesity: The Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Kilgour, Maggie. From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schwartz, Hillel. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat. London: Collier Macmillan, 1986.Google Scholar
Stearns, Peter N. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York: New York University Press, 1997.Google Scholar

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