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

Trade Review
"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 *

Table of Contents
Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood
In the Empire of Images: Preface to the
Tenth Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and
the Body

PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY
Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the
Conceptualization of Eating Disorders
Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the
Politics of Subject-ivity
Hunger as Ideology

PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS
Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the
Crystallization of Culture
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
Reading the Slender Body

PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism
"Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern
Culture
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies,
Postmodern Resistance

Notes
Index

Unbearable Weight

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2004
      ISBN13: 9780520240544, 978-0520240544
      ISBN10: 0520240545
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      Description

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

      Trade Review
      "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 *

      Table of Contents
      Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood
      In the Empire of Images: Preface to the
      Tenth Anniversary Edition
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and
      the Body

      PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY
      Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the
      Conceptualization of Eating Disorders
      Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the
      Politics of Subject-ivity
      Hunger as Ideology

      PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS
      Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the
      Crystallization of Culture
      The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
      Reading the Slender Body

      PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES
      Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism
      "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern
      Culture
      Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies,
      Postmodern Resistance

      Notes
      Index

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