Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Name: Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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ISBN: 9780520240544

ISBN-10: 0520240545

ISBN-13: 9780520240544

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Anniversary)

Authors: Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood

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Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. The author's new preface brings the book up to date, adding to the ranks of the increasingly important research on women and their bodies.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.606



Foreword: Reading Bordo



In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body



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



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



Postmodern Bodies


Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism


"Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture


Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance


Notes


Index