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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Heywood, Leslie
Bordo, Susan

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520240545
ISBN13: 9780520240544
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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