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Autore |
Bordo Susan <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / / Susan Bordo |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[10th anniversary ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 361 p. ) : ill., maps, ports. ; |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States |
Human body - Social aspects - United States |
Body image - United States |
Self-esteem in women - United States |
Feminist criticism - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Suppressed until access working- Acq investigating 29/1//21 |
Originally published: 1993. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Reading Bordo -- In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body -- Whose Body Is This? -- Are Mothers Persons? -- Hunger as Ideology -- Anorexia Nervosa -- The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity -- Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism -- Material Girl" -- Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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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