'"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 - ...
In this surprising and candid cultural analysis of men in public and private life, Bordo begins with a frank and tender look at her own father's body and goes on to perceptively scrutinize the presentation of maleness in everyday life. 45 photos throughout.
In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.
An examination of the shades of meaning contained in everyday symbols and images. Bordo, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, maintains that the ubiquitous images of any modern society--the advertising slogans, fashions, popular expressions, etc.--give the truest insight into its communal beliefs and character.
An examination of the shades of meaning contained in everyday symbols and images. Bordo, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky, maintains that the ubiquitous images of any modern society--the advertising slogans, fashions, popular expressions, etc.--give the truest insight into its communal beliefs and character.
A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of: the implications of Descartes' epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology; the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women; the historical context of his intellectual relations with women; and ...
A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of: the implications of Descartes' epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology; the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women; the historical context of his intellectual relations with women; and ...
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