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

感觉肥胖：现代早期法国的肥胖体验和治疗，1515-1715 年

• 批准号: 2710810
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2710810
• 关键词: Feeling; Fat; Experiencing; Treating; Fatness

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.

肥胖研究的学者们在16世纪发现了对肥胖的强烈批评，远远早于我们现代的“肥胖”概念。我的博士学位使用文艺复兴时期法国丰富的视觉文化和医生的新颖减肥建议，探索在这个关键时期（c.1500-c.1700）对脂肪的文化反应。使用女权主义和后殖民的方法，我将调查如何对肥胖和减肥的做法可以加强更广泛的性别，阶级和种族的层次结构的负面叙述。通过强调肥胖的历史结构和提升替代反应（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。