Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body - Bordo, Susan, 1947-; Heywood, Leslie (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003)
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.
Originally published: c1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index.
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; Body image; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Feminist criticism; Human body -- Social aspects; Self-esteem in women; United States