Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780520079793 (0520079795)
Publish date: September 7th 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 362
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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