Unbearable Weight

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ISBN: 9780520079793 | 0520079795
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/1993

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Fantastic study of women and their bodies. When originally published in 1993, it made NYT Notable Books of the Year. This 10th anniversary edition has a new preface by the author plus a foreword by Leslie Haywood, feminist scholar superstar, an authority on women athletes and body builders.

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Foreword: Reading Bordo	p. ix
In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxxvii
Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body	p. 1
Discourses and Conceptions of the Body
Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders	p. 45
Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity	p. 71
Hunger as Ideology	p. 99
The Slender Body and Other Cultural Forms
Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture	p. 139
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity	p. 165
Reading the Slender Body	p. 185
Postmodern Bodies
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism	p. 215
"Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture	p. 245
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance	p. 277
Notes	p. 301
Index	p. 343
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