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Feeding Desire
Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
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...
Published October 28th 2003 by Routledge