Unbearable Weight
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Unbearable Weight

Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

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Unbearable Weight

Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

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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) This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2004.
" 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, advertisi

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520930711
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword: Reading Bordo
  6. In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
  9. Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders
  10. Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subjectivity
  11. Hunger as Ideology
  12. Anorexia Nervosa Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture
  13. The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
  14. Reading the Slender Body
  15. Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism
  16. "Material Girl" The Effacements of Postmodern Culture
  17. Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance
  18. Notes
  19. Index