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What does it mean to be a man? To be manly? How has this changed throughout history? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage and athletic comportment, which from the eighteenth century onwards became representative of normative modern society. By using the ideal of the "man of action" as a focal point, a wide range of hitherto neglected aspects of the male body are brought to the fore, from styles of bodily comportment and medical concerns about health, energy and sexuality to more contemporary issues pertaining to body shape, muscularity, athleticism, and age. This book argues that the loudly proclaimed "crisis" of Western manhood has been marked by attempts to compensate for the gap between the historic bodily ideal of manly action and the banalities of material prosperity and conveniences of modern existence.

Masculinity. --- Masculinity --- Men. --- Masculinité --- Hommes --- History. --- Histoire --- Body, Human --- Human body --- Men --- Social aspects. --- Identity. --- 094:613 --- 316.371 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Hygiëne. Persoonlijke gezondheidszorg --- Gender --- 316.371 Gender --- 094:613 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Hygiëne. Persoonlijke gezondheidszorg --- Masculinité --- Male identity --- Masculine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social aspects --- Identity

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Fat: such a little word evokes big responses. While ‘fat’ describes the size and shape of bodies, our negative reactions to corpulent bodies also depend on something tangible and tactile; as this book argues, there is more to fat than meets the eye. Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life offers a historical reflection on how fat has been perceived and imagined in the West since antiquity. Featuring fascinating historical accounts, philosophical, religious and cultural arguments, including discussions of status, gender and race, the book digs deep into the past for the roots of our current notions and prejudices. Three central themes emerge: how we have perceived and imagined obesity over the centuries; how fat as a substance has elicited disgust and how it evokes perceptions of animality; but also how it has been associated with vitality and fertility. By exploring the complex ways in which fat, fatness and fattening have been perceived over time, this book provides rich insights into the stuff our stereotypes are made of.

Fat --- Overweight persons --- Corpulent persons --- Fat persons --- Large persons --- Obese persons --- Obesity --- Persons --- Fats --- Lipids --- Adipose tissues --- Social aspects --- Patients --- World history --- History of civilization --- 7.041 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis ; zwaarlijvigheid ; corpulentie --- Iconografie ; de mens, portretten

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Developmental psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- History --- Gender --- Identity --- Masculinity --- Men --- Male body --- Book

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Sexology --- History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899 --- Human body in popular culture --- Sex customs --- Sex --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Body, Human, in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Gender (Sex) --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexuality --- History

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Human body in literature --- Human body in popular culture --- Human body --- Social aspects