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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, 8 b&w photographs and 2 line drawings
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 29, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415280969 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 233 × 19 mm · 362 g |
| Language | English |