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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Book

Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more.Read More

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  • Foyles

    '"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).

  • Blackwell

    This excellent study links the fear of women's fat with a fear of women's power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle. 'Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective...

  • Pickabook

    Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood (Foreword)

  • 0520240545
  • 9780520240544
  • S Bordo
  • 19 December 2003
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 361
  • 2nd Revised edition
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