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Feeding Desire: Fatness and Beauty in the Sahara
Feeding Desire Fatness and Beauty in the Sahara
Author: Rebecca Popenoe
From the age of five or six, young Saharan Moor girls are required to eat several large bowls of grain or porridge with milk. The result is a voluptuousness thought to beautify girl's bodies, heighten their readiness for marriage, and protect them from health problems. While many of the world's societies have a vision of female beauty that tends...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415280969
ISBN-10: 0415280966
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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