The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

By Norbert Elias, E. Jephcott, E. Dunning, J. Goudsblom, S. Mennell. 2000

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Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of ‘Fat Male Embodiment’ (2005, background): “However, unlike the bourgeois ‘civilized body’ (Elias, 2000), which disciplines its own appetites and bodily boundaries according to (increasingly medicalized) middle-class dictates (Lupton, 2000), types of fat male cyberbody celebrate unrestrained yet patterned consumption.”
And deplete us not into temptation: Automatic attitudes, dietary restraint, and self-regulatory resources as determinants of eating behavior (2007, background): “Because giving way to one’s immediate hedonic impulses is not always possible or advisable in the light of social or personal constraints, human beings acquired the capacity for self-control or self-regulation in a historical process of civilization (Elias, 1939/2000; Freud, 1930/1961).”