Unbearable Weight

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Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

By Susan Bordo

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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of Unbearable Weight, Susan Bordo explores how women's desires to transcend their physical selves have led to narcissistic attempts at self-reinvention. She analyses the cultural obsession with youth and uniform beauty standards, highlighting the rise in plastic surgery aimed at altering bodies to fit these ideals. The updated preface brings the discussion to 2004, while Leslie Heywood's foreword situates Bordo's work as a key contribution to research on women and their bodies.
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This thought-provoking book is ideal for readers interested in feminist theory, body politics, cultural studies, and those seeking to understand the relationship between gender and societal pressures on appearance.

Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more.

Won the Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award in 1994 and was a 1993 "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.

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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition, Susan Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. Infatuated with youth, surrounded by homogenous representations of beauty, they standardise themselves to plastic surgeons in ever greater numbers for larger breasts, smaller noses, collagen-plumped lips and wrinkle-free faces.

The author's preface brings the book up to date in 2004, and Leslie Heywood's foreword places Susan Bordo's work in the front ranks of the research on women and their bodies.

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"This excellent study links the fear of women’s fat with a fear of women’s power and shows that as opportunities for women increase, their bodies dwindle." New York Times
Original, stimulating, and witty. San Francisco Chronicle

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520240544

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 55 b-w photographs

Contributors:

Foreword by Leslie Heywood

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 400

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Susan Bordo

About the Author

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