{"product_id":"unbearable-weight-9780520240544","title":"Unbearable Weight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Original, stimulating, and witty.\" * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood\u003cbr\u003e In the Empire of Images: Preface to the\u003cbr\u003e Tenth Anniversary Edition\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and\u003cbr\u003e the Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY\u003cbr\u003e Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the\u003cbr\u003e Conceptualization of Eating Disorders\u003cbr\u003e Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the\u003cbr\u003e Politics of Subject-ivity\u003cbr\u003e Hunger as Ideology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS\u003cbr\u003e Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the\u003cbr\u003e Crystallization of Culture\u003cbr\u003e The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity\u003cbr\u003e Reading the Slender Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES\u003cbr\u003e Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism\u003cbr\u003e \"Material Girl\": The Effacements of Postmodern\u003cbr\u003e Culture\u003cbr\u003e Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies,\u003cbr\u003e Postmodern Resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402820526423,"sku":"9780520240544","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520240544.jpg?v=1730481604","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unbearable-weight-9780520240544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}