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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition

By Leslie Heywood , Susan Bordo

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0520240545, 9780520240544
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
379 kB (387819 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
361\0
Time added
2016-08-13 06:27:46
Philosophy;Nonfiction;Gay & Lesbian;Criticism & Th

Description

"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 (2001)

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