• The Messed-Up History of Dieting (with Dr. Katharina Vester)

  • Mar 22 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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The Messed-Up History of Dieting (with Dr. Katharina Vester)

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  • For this episode, Mina revisits an old video she made on the history of dieting, supplemented (no pun intended) with more information, listener stories, and an interview with Dr. Katharina Vester, culture historian and professor at American University.

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    Sources:
    Regime change: Gender, class, and the invention of dieting in post-bellum America by Katharina Vester
    From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting: The Emergence of Dieting among Smith College Students in the 1920s by Margaret A. Lowe
    The Progressive Era Body Project: Calorie-Counting and “Disciplining the Stomach” in 1920s America by Chin Jou
    Dieting in the Long Sixties: Constructing the Identity of the Modern American Dieter by Nancy Gagliardi
    Slimming One’s Way to a Better Self? Weight Loss Clubs and Women in Britain, 1967–1990 by Katrina-Louise Moseley
    “Lose Like a Man”: Gender and the Constraints of Self-Making in Weight Watchers Online by Emily Contois
    Fasting Girls: A History of Anorexia by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
    Holy Anorexia     by Rudolph M. Bell
    History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person by Rachel Fulton and Bruce W. Holsinger
    An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore, called the fasting woman, of Tutbury: illustrated by remarks on other cases of real and pretended abstinence     by Alexander Henderson
    America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 by Nicholas Rasmussen
    The return of rainbow diet pills by Pieter A. Cohen, Alberto Goday & John P. Swann

    A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine
    Saint Wilgefortis: a bearded woman with a queer history
    How slimming became an obsession for women in post-war Britain by Myriam Wilks-Heeg
    Kids' Sugar Cravings Might Be Biological
    5 Food Myths You Should Stop Believing
    Anorexia Mirabilis: Fasting in Victorian England and modern India
    The Jacob Case
    Breatharian Website
    Cult that shuns food shaken by reports leader is eating
    Breatharian Leader Wiley Brooks Lives On Light, Air, And Quarter Pounders

    Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter
    Edited by Sophie Carter
    Music by Olivia Martinez
    Cover by Lindsay Mintz
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Ugh will we ever learn

I decided to listen to this on my run! This made me so sad, I am trying to find the balance. Thanks so much for the information l! Please keep them coming!

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