Unbearable weight : Feminism, Western culture, and the body - Bordo, Susan, 1947- (Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2003)
"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).
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
Suppressed until access working- Acq investigating 29/1//21
Originally published: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-342) and index.
Description based on print version.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States; Human body -- Social aspects -- United States; Body image -- United States; Self-esteem in women -- United States; Feminist criticism -- United States