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Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415280966
ISBN13: 9780415280969
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 29 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
While in the West it is said that women can never be too thin, semi-nomadic Arabs in Niger cherish a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Feeding Desire analyses this beauty ideal in the context of Islam, conceptions of health, and notions of desire

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