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    Standardizing Slimness: How Body Weight Quantified Beauty in the Netherlands, 1870–1940

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    This chapter investigates the history of one of the most powerful quantitative beauty standards: weight. The chapter argues that weight is neither a natural nor a neutral standard for the beauty ideals of slimness and fatness. It is shown first how, in late nineteenth-century Netherlands, weight had not yet become a standard of beauty but was rather a bodily curiosity, measured at fairgrounds. The chapter then analyses Dutch newspaper advertisements for slimming remedies to show that, by the 1930s, weight was strongly established as a standard of beauty, scales having ceased to be a fairground attraction. The chapter concludes with an exploration of the consequences of this new standard of beauty, which complicated its character by partially separating it from the visual

    Brief von Ola Alsen an Margarete Hauptmann

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    Brief von Ola Alsen an Margarete Hauptmann

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    Mein bester Kamerad

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