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Journal. “This amusing historical and literary review ranges widely, covering subjects such as Santa Claus, the Nutty Professor, and gastric bypass surgery.”—Choice. “A welcome survey of representations of male obesity in technology western culture. Historian Sander Gilman uses character studies of what he terms ‘fat boys’ from antiquity to the present, to ‘negotiate the complexities of defining the healthy and the ill’(17).”--Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, American Studies He is the epitome of health—or a technology walking time bomb. He is oversexed—or sexless. He is jolly—or hiding the tears technology of a clown. He is the picture of wealth and plenty—or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat man—a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue—and he is the subject of this remarkably rich book.
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