Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
by Susan Bordo 
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"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 show more 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). show lessTags
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The linchpin of much of my thinking as a feminist for the past few years.
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Susan Bordo is a media critic, cultural historian, and feminist scholar. Her books include Unbearable Weight and, most recently, The Creation of Anne Boleyn. She is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Susan Bordo is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Sociology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1220 .U5 .B67 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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