Unbearable weight : Feminism, Western culture, and the body / Susan Bordo.

Author
Bordo, Susan, 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/​Created
  • Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2003.
  • ©1959
Description
1 online resource (xxxviii, 361 p. ) ill., maps, ports. ;

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Summary note
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001).
Notes
  • Suppressed until access working- Acq investigating 29/1//21
  • Originally published: 1993.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-342) and index.
Source of description
  • Description based on print version.
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Reading Bordo
  • In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
  • Whose Body Is This?
  • Are Mothers Persons?
  • Hunger as Ideology
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
  • Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism
  • Material Girl"
  • Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance
  • Notes
  • Index
Other title(s)
Feminism, Western culture, and the body
ISBN
  • 9780520930711
  • 0520930711
OCLC
  • 1198929208
  • 1409031217
Doi
10.1525/9780520930711
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