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Susan Bordo is known for the clarity, accessibility, and contemporary relevance of her writing. Her first book, The Flight to Objectivity, has become a classic of feminist philosophy. In 1993, increasingly aware of our culture's preoccupation with weight and body image, she published Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, a book that is still widely read and assigned in classes today. During speaking tours for that book, she encountered many young men who asked, "What about us?" The result was The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private . Both books were highly praised by reviewers, with Unbearable Weight named a 1993 Notable Book by the New York Times and The Male Body featured in Mademoiselle, Elle, Vanity Fair, NPR, and MSNBC. Both books have been translated into many languages, and individual chapters, many of which are considered paradigms of lucid writing, are frequently re-printed in collections and writing textbooks. The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen, was published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April, 2013. The Destruction of Hillary Clinton followed in 2017. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband, daughter, three dogs, a cat, and a cockatiel.

Bordo received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982. She recently retired from her position as Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Susan Bordo

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Books from Susan Bordo

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private

Feminism/Postmodernism

Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.

The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture

TV

Imagine Bernie Sanders as a Woman: And Other Writings on Politics and Media 2016-2019

Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought

Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes

Teorie wywrotowe. Antologia przekładów

TV (Object Lessons)

The Destruction of Hillary Clinton: Untangling the Political Forces, Media Culture, and Assault on Fact That Decided the 2016 Election

The Destruction of Hillary Clinton