Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Susan Bordo

University of California Press, 1993 - Social Science - 361 pages

In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.

About the author

Susan Bordo is Professor of Philosophy and Singletary Chair of Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture (1987) and co-editor of Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing (1989).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body; Gender studies. Philosophy. Sociology
• Author: Susan Bordo
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0520088832, 9780520088832
• Length: 361 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies