Feeling Fat: Experiencing and Treating Fatness in Early Modern France, 1515-1715

肥胖研究学者发现，早在现代“肥胖”概念出现之前的16世纪，人们就对肥胖提出了高度批评。我的博士利用法国文艺复兴时期丰富的视觉文化和医生新颖的减肥建议，探索在这一关键时期（约1500-约1700年），文化对脂肪的反应正在发生变化。运用女权主义和后殖民主义的方法，我将调查关于肥胖和减肥的负面叙述如何强化性别、阶级和种族的更广泛的等级制度。通过强调肥胖的历史构造和提升替代反应（例如，对医疗建议的抵制），该项目可以挑战当代社会普遍存在的反肥胖态度。

Fat Studies scholars identify heightened criticism of fatness during the sixteenth century, long before our modern concept of "obesity". My PhD uses the rich visual culture of Renaissance France and novel slimming advice from physicians to explore shifting cultural responses to fat during this crucial period (c.1500-c.1700). Using feminist and postcolonial methods, I will investigate how negative narratives about fatness and slimming practices could reinforce wider hierarchies of gender, class, and race. By highlighting the historical construction of fatness and elevating alternative responses (e.g. resistance to medical advice), this project can challenge the anti-fat attitudes that prevail in contemporary society.