|aUnbearable weight :|bfeminism, Western culture, and the body /|cSusan Bordo ; new preface by the author ; new foreword by Leslie Heywood.
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|a10th anniversary ed.
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|aBerkeley, Calif. :|bUniversity of California Press,|c2003.
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|axxxviii, 361 p. :|bill. ;|c23 cm.
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|aOriginally published: c1993.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index.
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|aForeword : reading Bordo / Leslie Heywood -- In the empire of images : preface to the tenth anniversary edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : feminism, Western culture, and the body -- pt. 1. Discourses and conceptions of the body -- Whose body is this? : feminism, medicine, and the conceptualization of eating disorders -- Are mothers persons? : reproductive rights and the politics of subject-ivity -- Hunger as ideology -- pt. 2. The slender body and other cultural forms -- Anorexia nervosa : psychopathology as the crystallization of culture -- The body and the reproduction of femininity -- Reading the slender body -- pt. 3. Postmodern bodies -- Feminism, postmodernism, and gender skepticism -- "Material girl" : the effacements of postmodern culture -- Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance.