Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo (Engli

Description: Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "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 womens 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) Notes Feminism, western culture and the body. Flap " 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 womens 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 "This is a terrific book!"--Nancy J. Chodorow, author of The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (2001) and The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (UC Press, 1999) "Susan Bordos Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex and nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book."--Susan Griffin, author of The Book of Courtesans: A Catalogue of their Virtues "To read Susan Bordo is to take a wild ride through the cultural images that form our daily lives, and to see them with a startling X-ray vision that reveals their blood and guts and bones, a vision that reveals us, finally, to ourselves...Piece by piece, strand by careful strand, she shows the sources of our deepest anxieties in the history of philosophy, in gender and race ideologies and the way these get expressed in the cultural images that surround us. Unbearable Weight is, in its essence, a profound gift of insight, generosity, understanding. Though this edition marks the tenth anniversary of Unbearable Weight, these pages are as uncanny, insightful, and welcoming now as they were then. In living with us in the crazy, fast-moving world that is contemporary media culture, Susan Bordo is our guide, our companion, and our friend." --from the foreword by Leslie Heywood Author Biography Susan Bordo is Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Womens 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). Table of Contents Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body PART ONE 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 PART TWO 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 PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance Notes Index Review "This excellent study links the fear of womens fat with a fear of womens power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle." * New York Times *"Original, stimulating, and witty." * San Francisco Chronicle * Promotional Won the Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award in 1994 and was a 1993 "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Review Quote "This excellent study links the fear of womens fat with a fear of womens power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle." Details ISBN0520240545 Author Leslie Heywood Short Title UNBEARABLE WEIGHT ANNI Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520240545 ISBN-13 9780520240544 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 305.42 Year 2004 Imprint University of California Press Country of Publication United States Replaces 9780520088832 Birth 1947 Place of Publication Berkerley Residence KY, US Subtitle Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body DOI 10.1604/9780520240544 UK Release Date 2004-01-01 NZ Release Date 2004-01-01 US Release Date 2004-01-01 Pages 400 Edition Description 2nd edition Edition 2nd Publication Date 2004-01-01 Illustrations 55 b-w photographs Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2003-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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