Feeding Desire Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality among a Saharan People

Name: Feeding Desire Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality among a Saharan People
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ISBN: 9780415280969

ISBN-10: 0415280966

ISBN-13: 9780415280969

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rebecca Popenoe

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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 girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Entering the Field



Coming into the Azawagh



Getting Fat



Self-Representations



In the Name of Allah, Most Benevolent, Ever Merciful



Ties of Blood, Ties of Milk, Ties of Marriage



"The Men Bring Us What We Will Eat"



Veiled Logics



The Interior Spaces of Social Life: Bodies of Men, Bodies of Women



The Exterior Spaces of Social Life: Desert, Village, Tent



Negotiating Life's Challenges



Well-being and Illness



Beauty, Sex and Desire