Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / Susan Bordo ; new preface by the author ; new foreword by Leslie Heywood.

Author
Bordo, Susan, 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
10th anniversary ed.
Published/​Created
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.
Description
xxxviii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Notes
    Originally published: c1993.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword : reading Bordo / Leslie Heywood
    • In the empire of images : preface to the tenth anniversary edition
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction : feminism, Western culture, and the body
    • pt. 1. Discourses and conceptions of the body
    • Whose body is this? : feminism, medicine, and the conceptualization of eating disorders
    • Are mothers persons? : reproductive rights and the politics of subject-ivity
    • Hunger as ideology
    • pt. 2. The slender body and other cultural forms
    • Anorexia nervosa : psychopathology as the crystallization of culture
    • The body and the reproduction of femininity
    • Reading the slender body
    • pt. 3. Postmodern bodies
    • Feminism, postmodernism, and gender skepticism
    • "Material girl" : the effacements of postmodern culture
    • Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance.
    ISBN
    • 0520240545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 9780520240544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2003055221
    OCLC
    54986428
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