Unbearable Weight

Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

'"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).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Upplaga:2
Förlag:University of California Press
Medarbetare:Leslie Heywood
ISBN:9780520240544

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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 (1999), and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (California, 1997).

Recensioner i media

"This excellent study links the fear of women’s fat with a fear of women’s power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle."

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie HeywoodIn the Empire of Images: Preface to theTenth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Feminism, Western Culture, andthe BodyPART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODYWhose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and theConceptualization of Eating DisordersAre Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and thePolitics of Subject-ivityHunger as IdeologyPART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMSAnorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as theCrystallization of CultureThe Body and the Reproduction of FemininityReading the Slender BodyPART THREE POSTMODERN BODIESFeminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism"Material Girl": The Effacements of PostmodernCulturePostmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies,Postmodern ResistanceNotesIndex