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Join the Department of History & Religion to celebrate the book launch of

Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Centure: Meanings, Measures, and Representations

Edited by Amy Shaw and Lynn Kennedy

Copies will be sold at the event by the University of Lethbridge Bookstore. 

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates discussion and analyses of fatness, highlighting how corporeal expectations fit into larger social systems and showing how interpretations have shifted over time. This collection examines a host of primary sources – including literature, art, medical treatises, journalism, political cartoons, soldiers’ letters home, and popular fiction – to identify trends in how fat was perceived and promoted in the English-speaking world over the long nineteenth century.

Friday, February 28, 2025
3:00 PM
Room M1090 
and Zoom:  https://uleth.zoom.us/j/97492786084

Lynn Kennedy is Associate Professor & Chair in the Department of History & Religion at the University of Lethbridge.  Her research focuses on issues of domesticity and household formation in the nineteenth-century South, including childbirth & motherhood, sewing & fashion, and divorce. She is the author of Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood and Social Networks in the Old South (JHUP, 2010).

 Amy Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of History & Religion at the University of Lethbridge. She has written and edited several books and articles in the area of war and society, gender, and citizenship, including Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War (UBC, 2020.)

Thank you for support from the University of Lethbridge VP Research Office. 

Everyone is welcome!  Refreshments will be provided.