TY - BOOK ID - 78142504 TI - Feeding desire PY - 2012 SN - 1283845075 1135140774 0203603524 9781135140779 9780203603529 9781135140854 9781135140939 9780415280952 9780415280969 1135140855 PB - Hoboken Taylor and Francis DB - UniCat KW - Body image in women KW - Human body KW - Muslim women KW - Overweight women KW - Sex customs KW - Women, Arab KW - Customs, Sex KW - Human beings KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Manners and customs KW - Moral conditions KW - Sex KW - Overweight persons KW - Women KW - Obesity in women KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - Arab women KW - Body, Human KW - Body image KW - Human anatomy KW - Human physiology KW - Mind and body KW - Social aspects KW - Psychology KW - Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger) KW - Axaouak (Mali and Niger) KW - Azaouak (Mali and Niger) KW - Azawagh Valley (Mali and Niger) KW - Azawak Valley (Mali and Niger) KW - Azeouak Valley (Mali and Niger) KW - Oued Azaouak (Mali and Niger) KW - Vallée de l'Azaouak (Mali and Niger) KW - Vallée de l'Azawagh (Mali and Niger) KW - Vallée de l'Azawak (Mali and Niger) KW - Vallée de l'Azeouak (Mali and Niger) KW - Social life and customs. KW - Muslimahs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142504 AB - 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 female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses th ER -