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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body - Paperback

by Susan Bordo
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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood (Foreword by)Publish date:2004-01-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520240544ISBN-10:520240545UPC:9780520240544Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Aesthetics, Gender StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCQ4P52NK4
"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)
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520240544ISBN-10:520240545UPC:9780520240544Book Category:Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Aesthetics, Gender StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCQ4P52NK4
Susan Bordo is Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private, and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (UC Press, 1997).
Publisher: University of California Press

Edition

10th Anniversary Edition

Contributor(s)

Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood (Foreword by)

Author

Susan Bordo

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