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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

4.1/5 ( ratings)

"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

Language: English

Pages: 400

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 0520240545

ISBN 13: 9780520240544

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

4.1/5 ( ratings)

"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

Language: English

Pages: 400

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 0520240545

ISBN 13: 9780520240544

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