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Autore: | Bordo Susan <1947-> |
Titolo: | Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / / Susan Bordo |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Edizione: | 10th anniversary ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 361 p. ) : ill., maps, ports. ; |
Disciplina: | 305.42 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Altri autori: | HeywoodLeslie |
Note generali: | Suppressed until access working- Acq investigating 29/1//21 |
Originally published: 1993. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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). |
Altri titoli varianti: | Feminism, Western culture, and the body |
Titolo autorizzato: | Unbearable weight |
ISBN: | 0-520-93071-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996248328603316 |
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