Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Susan Bordo

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by Susan Bordo

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Info:	University of California Press (2004), Paperback, 398 pages
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The linchpin of much of my thinking as a feminist for the past few years. (

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In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.

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