Unbearable Weight Paperback / softback - 2004
by Susan Bordo
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- Title Unbearable Weight
- Author Susan Bordo
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition 10 Anv
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-01-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780520240544_inp
- ISBN 9780520240544 / 0520240545
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Self-esteem in women - United States, Body, Human - Social aspects - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003055221
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.42
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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 called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture "This is a terrific book!"--Nancy J. Chodorow, author of The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (2001) and The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (UC Press, 1999) "Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex and nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book."--Susan Griffin, author of The Book of Courtesans: A Catalogue of their Virtues "To read Susan Bordo is to take a wild ride through the cultural images that form our daily lives, and to see them with a startling X-ray vision that reveals their blood and guts and bones, a vision that reveals us, finally, to ourselves...Piece by piece, strand by careful strand, she shows the sources of our deepest anxieties in the history of philosophy, in gender and race ideologies and the way these get expressed in the cultural images that surround us. Unbearable Weight is, in its essence, a profound gift of insight, generosity, understanding. Though this edition marks the tenth anniversary of Unbearable Weight, these pages are as uncanny, insightful, and welcoming now as they were then. In living with us in the crazy, fast-moving world that is contemporary media culture, Susan Bordo is our guide, our companion, and our friend." --from the foreword by Leslie Heywood
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- Christianity Today, 09/01/2013, Page 76
