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

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Section I: Epistemologies and Philosophies
 
1. The Enfleshment of Difference: Medicalizing and Gendering the Fat Body in the Nineteenth Century
Kristen A. Hardy

2. To Measure Skulls, to Measure Waists: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Health Standards
Bessie Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop

Section II: Weights and Measures

3. “All young things are fat if they are in health”: The Shift from Qualitative to Quantitative Assessments of Infant Weight in the Nineteenth-Century United States
V. Lynn Kennedy
 
4. Physical Culture and the Denial of Fat in fin de siècle America
Conor Heffernan

5. Prison Bodies: The Height and Weight of Men in Canadian Prisons, 1874–1935
L. Antonie, K. Inwood, and H. Maxwell-Stewart 

Section III: Cultural Representations and Constructions

6. Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body, 1780–1840: Representation, Commodification, and Display
Freya Gowrley

7. The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Tatiana Konrad

8. Visualizing the Body: The Mbopo Ritual and the Politics of Fatness in Southern Nigeria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Nsima Udo

Section IV: Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Body Politic

9. Colonial Engorgement in the Pictorial Arts: “Fat” Uncle Sam in the Imperialist Debates, 1898–1902
Bonnie M. Miller

10. Gaining in Flesh: Canadian Soldiers in the War in South Africa
Amy J. Shaw

Conclusion

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index