Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body [Paperback]

Unbearable Weightis brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the bodyweight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much morein a way that makes sense of our current social landscapefinally! 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 ofSubject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture(2001)

Susan Bordois Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author ofThe Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private(1999), andTwilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.(California, 1997).

Unbearable Weightis brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the bodyweight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much morein a way that makes sense of our current social landscapefinally! 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 ofSubject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture(2001)

This is a terrific book! Nancy J. Chodorow, author ofThe Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture(2001) andThe Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender(California, 1999)

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