John F. Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001, £16.25). Pp. 256. ISBN 0 8090 8862 2. Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco (eds.), Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, £37.95 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 360. ISBN 0 520 21746 2, 0520 22585 6.
John F. Kasson, Houdini,
Tarzan
and
the
Perfect
Man:
The
White
Male
Body
and
the
Challenge
of
Modernity
in
America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001, £16.25). Pp. 256. ISBN 0 8090 8862 2.
Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco (eds.), Bodies
out
of
Bounds:
Fatness
and
Transgression (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, £37.95 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 360. ISBN 0 520 21746 2, 0520 22585 6.
