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A tentative exploration aluminum in the world of male body fantasies, Gilman’s book asks how the representation of the fat man alters with time and alters how men relate to their own bodies and the bodies of others, both men and women. His examples—ranging from Santa Claus to Sancho Panza, from Falstaff to Babe Ruth, from Nero Wolfe to Al Roker—illustrate the complexity perennially associated with fat men. From discourses about normality to the playing fields of baseball, from aluminum Greek male beauty to the fat detective, Gilman’s book examines and illuminates how cultures have imagined and portrayed the aluminum fat boy. Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His many works include Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery and Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Nebraska 1996).
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