The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women

Stachura, Michał

dc.contributor.author	Stachura, Michał
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-10T07:44:30Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-10T07:44:30Z
dc.date.issued	2022-12-30
dc.identifier.issn	2084-140X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/45839
dc.description.abstract	The phenomenon of “fat shaming” (in particular with its aspect of the especially harsh criticism of the corpulence in young adult women) seems nearly non-existent in the ancient Classical literature. The extant satirical depictions of fatness are uncommon and aimed, almost exclusively, at overweight men. The author of the paper analyses this satirical description, its background in the ancient moral philosophy, as well as comments on plumpness and gluttony in the context of assessments of the female physical beauty. He also attempts to explain how some ancient ideas may have evolved in the attitudes of today, showing some examples from the 19th-century prose as a step in the reshaping of the ancient ideas. Eventually, the author makes an attempt to offer a better understanding of this contemporary phenomenon, which only in some of its elements may be seen as rooted in Antiquity.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	fat shaming	en
dc.subject	history of mentalities	en
dc.subject	ancient literature	en
dc.subject	19th-century literature	en
dc.subject	Prodikos	en
dc.subject	tryphé	en
dc.title	The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	181-213
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Jagiellonian University, Institute of History, ul. Gołębia 13, 31-007 Kraków Polska/Poland	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8378
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