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Unbearable weight: feminism, Western culture, and the body

Susan Bordo
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood (page ix)
  • In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxxvii)
  • Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (page 1)
  • PART ONE: DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY
    • Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders (page 45)
    • Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity (page 71)
    • Hunger as Ideology (page 99)
  • PART TWO: THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS
    • Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture (page 139)
    • The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity (page 165)
    • Reading the Slender Body (page 185)
  • PART THREE: POSTMODERN BODIES
    • Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism (page 215)
    • "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture (page 245)
    • Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance (page 277)
  • Notes (page 301)
  • Index (page 343)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CS 24.1 (Jan. 1995): 42-43 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2075082
ET 105.4 (Jul. 1995): 952-954 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2382126
WRB 11.3 (Dec. 1993): 19-20 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4021779
DRJ 27.2 (Autumn. 1995): 43-44 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1478023
AJS 100.1 (Jul. 1994): 309-311 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2782576
SIG 21.3 (Spring. 1996): 786-795 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175191
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Published: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520240544 (paper)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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