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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Related name
Heywood, Leslie [Browse]
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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