Comments on: The Diets of the Goldbergs http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/20/the-diets-of-the-goldbergs/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Jennifer Jones http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/20/the-diets-of-the-goldbergs/comment-page-1/#comment-412441 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:07:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=21447#comment-412441 Great resource! Thanks so much!

]]> By: Jonah Horwitz http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/20/the-diets-of-the-goldbergs/comment-page-1/#comment-412422 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:14:46 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=21447#comment-412422 Thanks for this piece! I hope you will/can expand it someday (unfortunately there’s no way of expressing that sentiment that doesn’t sound like a pun in context).

In regards the discourses of gender and obesity then and now, here’s a photo essay from Life Magazine in 1954:

http://life.time.com/culture/obesity-in-the-usa-photos-from-the-early-fight-against-a-plague-1954/#1 (scroll through the photos and eventually they display them as they originally appeared in the magazine)

]]> By: Jennifer Lynn Jones http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/20/the-diets-of-the-goldbergs/comment-page-1/#comment-412372 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:36:06 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=21447#comment-412372 Thanks for the feedback! Finding these episodes was fortuitous, although doing a little more digging has unearthed more from other series so I’m hoping to add to it.

]]> By: Diane Negra http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/20/the-diets-of-the-goldbergs/comment-page-1/#comment-412358 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:38 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=21447#comment-412358 What an interesting piece. So much of the scholarship on female body size is studiously contemporary and it adds a lot to gain historical perspective of this kind.

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