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Unbearable weight: feminism, Western culture, and the body
Susan Bordo
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Frontmatter
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Foreword: Reading Bordo, by Leslie Heywood (page ix)
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In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition (page xiii)
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Acknowledgments (page xxxvii)
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Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (page 1)
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PART ONE: DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY
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Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders (page 45)
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Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity (page 71)
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Hunger as Ideology (page 99)
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PART TWO: THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS
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Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture (page 139)
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The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity (page 165)
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Reading the Slender Body (page 185)
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PART THREE: POSTMODERN BODIES
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Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism (page 215)
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"Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture (page 245)
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Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance (page 277)
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Notes (page 301)
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Index (page 343)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CS | 24.1 (Jan. 1995): 42-43 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2075082 |
ET | 105.4 (Jul. 1995): 952-954 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2382126 |
WRB | 11.3 (Dec. 1993): 19-20 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4021779 |
DRJ | 27.2 (Autumn. 1995): 43-44 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1478023 |
AJS | 100.1 (Jul. 1994): 309-311 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2782576 |
SIG | 21.3 (Spring. 1996): 786-795 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175191 |
Citable Link
Published: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
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