Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People - Rebecca Popenoe - Google Books

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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls'…