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

Paperback • 2003

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

By Rebecca Popenoe

13 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

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About the book

While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active f...Show more

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9780415280969

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2003

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

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