Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

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2003
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' 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).

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' 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).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 370
Edition: 2
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 19 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0520240545
ISBN 13: 9780520240544
Book Overview: Won the Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award in 1994 and was a 1993 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Media Reviews

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. -- New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

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).