From "Fat Is In" to "Slim-Thick" - A History of Dieting
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The New Beauty Idea for Women
weight lost moves over to women at some point. Even in the 18 eighties and 18 nineties, when women start to be able to go to college, they're actually writing letters home to their parents bragging about how much weight they've gained there. It's almost like, as slenderness becomes more associated with masculine, they need a foil, a counter ideal. So fatness becomes more feminine, exactly.
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