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CONTENTS

Introduction: The Original Epidemic

PART I: THE BEAUTY OF THE ROBUST

1. Being Venus

2. Plump Women and Thin, Fine Men

PART II: RACE, WEIGHT, GOD, AND COUNTRY

3. The Rise of the Big Black Woman

4. Birth of the Ascetic Aesthetic

5. American Beauty: The Reign of the Slender Aesthetic

6. Thinness as American Exceptionalism

PART III: DOCTORS WEIGH IN

7. Good Health to Uplift the Race

8. Fat, Revisited

Epilogue: The Obesity Epidemic

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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