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Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People Rebecca Popenoe 1st edition
Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
Rebecca Popenoe
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
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 29, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415280952 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 522 g |
| Language | English |