Essais Et Documents La guerre des fesses

A new investigation by Jean-Claude Kaufmann which reveals the surprising evolution of the beauty criteria.Diets, miracle creams, horsehair sponges, scalpel, liposuction ... never have women tortured themselves so much. But why are we fighting such brutal battles with our bodies? The answer is obvious: either too fat or too skinny.Jean-Claude Kaufmann takes us through an enlightening geo-political investigation of cultural dictates concerning the size of the female derriere, where the Northern hemisphere imposes skeletal proportions and the Southern hemisphere prefers them pleasingly plump. He reveals the norms forced upon women through the imagined eye of the beholder and the changing way women see their own bodies depending on the fashion of the time. By what miracle does the body itself conform to present dictates of beauty? Thin or plump, where will this planetary war lead us? What will be tomorrow's preferred silhouette?