Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / Susan Bordo ; new preface by the author ; new foreword by Leslie Heywood.
2003
305.42 B729u 2003
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Title
Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / Susan Bordo ; new preface by the author ; new foreword by Leslie Heywood.
Author
Edition
10th anniversary ed.
ISBN
0520240545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520240544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520240544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xxxviii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
305.42 B729u 2003
System Control No.
(OCoLC)52477202
(OCoLC)52477202
(OCoLC)52477202
Note
Originally published: c1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword : reading Bordo / Leslie Heywood
In the empire of images : preface to the tenth anniversary edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction : feminism, Western culture, and the body
pt. 1. 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
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3. Postmodern bodies
Feminism, postmodernism, and gender skepticism
"Material girl" : the effacements of postmodern culture
Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance.
In the empire of images : preface to the tenth anniversary edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction : feminism, Western culture, and the body
pt. 1. 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
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3. Postmodern bodies
Feminism, postmodernism, and gender skepticism
"Material girl" : the effacements of postmodern culture
Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance.
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