One. The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat
Two. Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination
Three. Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness
Four. Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath
Five. Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages
Six. The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat
Seven. Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity
Eight. Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat?
Nine. Savage Desires: 'Primitive' Fat and 'Civilized' Slenderness
Ten. Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence.
One.The Stuff of Life: Thinking and Doing with Fat
Two.Fertile Ambiguities: The Agricultural Imagination
Three.Ancient Appetites: Luxury and the Geography of Softness
Four.Christian Corpulence: The Belly and What Lies Beneath
Five.Noble Fat? Corpulence in the Middle Ages
Six.The Fat of the Land; or, Why a Good Cock is Never Fat
Seven.Spartan Mirages: Utopian Bodies and the Challenges of Modernity
Eight.Grease and Grace: The Disenchantment of Fat?
Nine.Savage Desires: ̀Primitive' Fat and ̀Civilized' Slenderness
Ten.Bodily Utopianism: Modern Dreams of Transcendence.
