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Unbearable Weight

Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition, Susan Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. Infatuated with youth, surrounded by homogenous representations of beauty, they surrender themselves to plastic surgeons in ever greater numbers for larger breasts, smaller noses, collagen-plumped lips and wrinkle-free faces. The author's preface brings the book up to date in 2004 and Leslie Heywood's foreword places Susan Bordo's work in the front ranks of the research on women and their bodies.

Author Biography:

Susan Bordo is Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (1999), and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (California, 1997).
Release date Australia
January 1st, 2004
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  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Foreword by Leslie Heywood
Edition
2nd edition
Illustrations
55 b-w photographs
Pages
400
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9780520240544
Product ID
1906906

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