Never satisfied a cultural history of diets, fantasies and fat - Schwartz, Hillel (New York Free Press, 1986)
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Prologue: Ritual and Romance -- Chapter 2. The Thin Body and the Jacksonians -- Chapter 3. The Buoyant Body in Victorian America -- Chapter 4. The Balanced Body at Century's Turn -- Chapter 5. The Regulated Body -- Chapter 6. The Measured Body -- Chapter 7. Hearts of Darkness, Bodies of Woe -- Chapter 8. Thin Bodies, Fat Profits -- Chapter 9. Baby Fat -- Chapter 10. The Weightless Body -- Chapter 11. Fat and Happy? -- Grace. Notes. Index.
Includes bibliography and index.
Keywords: Reducing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Body image; Obesity -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- United States