Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780520930711 (0520930711)
Publish date: December 2nd 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 398
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Feminism,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Cultural Studies,
Theory,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies
The topic of body image and its associated behaviors are efficiently preluded on the first page of Susan Bordo’s book through Delmore Schwartz’s poem The Heavy Bear. It introduces the dualism of the body; how it is both our being as well as an inescapable pest. It expounds on the idea that the body...
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