"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 (2001)

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Bordo, Susan
ISBN: 9780520240544
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.90 x 1.00
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Year: 2004

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

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