Obesity in women
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![[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483820_EPH_499A_89_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill (May 1871?) advertising an appearance by Miss C. Heenan, the Great American Prize Lady, weighing 40 stone at the age of 22, at The Universum, 369 Oxford Street, London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483790_EPH_499A_86_0001.jp2/full/180%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28483819_EPH_499A_88_0001.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
8 works
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The 'fat' female body / Samantha Murray.
Murray, Samantha, 1978-Date: 2008
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[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].
Date: 1885- Books
Fat -- a fate worse than death? : women, weight, and appearance / Ruth Raymond Thone.
Thone, Ruth RaymondDate: [1997]- Books
Fatness and the maternal body : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne.
Date: 2011- Books
Fattily ever after / Stephanie Yeboah.
Yeboah, StephanieDate: 2020