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Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body 🔍
University of California Press, First paperback edition, Berkeley, 1995
Susan Bordo 🔍
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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.
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Bordo, Susan
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University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993
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United States, United States of America
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New edition, 1995-03-15
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March 15, 1995
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Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION: FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY......Page 8
Cultural Expressions of Mind-Body Dualism......Page 9
Woman as Body......Page 12
Activity, Passivity, and Gender......Page 18
Anglo-American Feminism, "Women's Liberation," and the Politics of the Body......Page 22
Beyond the Oppressor/Oppressed Model......Page 30
Feminism as Systemic Critique......Page 36
Nature, Culture, and the Body......Page 40
Transcendence, "Difference," and Cultural Transformation......Page 43
PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY......Page 50
The Feminist Challenge......Page 51
Pathology, Culture, and the Medical Model......Page 55
"Body Image Disturbance" and "Bulimic Thinking"......Page 60
The Cultural Argument: Myths and Misconceptions......Page 66
Responses to the Feminist Challenge: Change and Resistance......Page 69
Beyond the Medical Model......Page 72
Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity......Page 76
Embodied Subjects and De-Subjectified Bodies......Page 77
Fetal Super-Subjects and Maternal Incubators......Page 85
Reclaiming Reproductive Subjectivity......Page 98
The Woman Who Doesn't Eat Much......Page 103
Psyching Out the Female Consumer......Page 107
Food, Sexuality, and Desire......Page 114
Men Eat and Women Prepare......Page 121
Food and Love......Page 125
Food as Transgression......Page 132
Destabilizing Images?......Page 135
PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS......Page 139
Eating Disorders, Culture, and The Body......Page 142
The Dualist Axis......Page 147
The Control Axis......Page 151
The Gender/Power Axis......Page 157
Reconstructing Feminist Discourse on the Body......Page 168
The Body as a Text Of Femininity......Page 171
Protest and Retreat in the Same Gesture......Page 177
Collusion, Resistance, and the Body......Page 180
Textuality, Praxis, and the Body......Page 183
Reading the Slender Body......Page 188
Contemporary Anxiety and the Enemy Flab......Page 190
Slenderness and the Inner State of the Self......Page 194
Slenderness and the Social Body......Page 201
Slenderness, Self-Management, and Normalization......Page 205
Slenderness and Gender......Page 207
PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES......Page 216
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism......Page 217
Contemporary Feminism and Gender Skepticism......Page 218
From the "View From Nowhere" To Feminist Methodologism......Page 220
The "View From Nowhere" and the Dream of Everywhere......Page 227
The Retreat from Female Otherness......Page 231
The Place of Duality in a Plural Universe......Page 235
Plasticity as Postmodern Paradigm......Page 246
Plastic Bodies......Page 247
Plastic Discourse......Page 259
"Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine......Page 266
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance......Page 277
Introduction......Page 301
Whose Body is This?......Page 305
Are Mothers Persons?......Page 309
Hunger as Ideology......Page 317
Anorexia Nervosa......Page 318
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity......Page 328
Reading the Slender Body......Page 332
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism......Page 335
"Material Girl"......Page 339
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance......Page 341
A......Page 343
B......Page 344
C......Page 345
D......Page 347
E......Page 348
F......Page 349
G......Page 350
H......Page 351
M......Page 352
N......Page 354
P......Page 355
S......Page 357
T......Page 359
W......Page 360
Z......Page 361
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Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body 2
CONTENTS 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6
INTRODUCTION: FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY 8
Cultural Expressions of Mind-Body Dualism 9
Woman as Body 12
Activity, Passivity, and Gender 18
Anglo-American Feminism, "Women's Liberation," and the Politics of the Body 22
Beyond the Oppressor/Oppressed Model 30
Feminism as Systemic Critique 36
Nature, Culture, and the Body 40
Transcendence, "Difference," and Cultural Transformation 43
PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY 50
Whose Body Is This? Feminism, Medicine, and the Conceptualization of Eating Disorders 51
The Feminist Challenge 51
Pathology, Culture, and the Medical Model 55
"Body Image Disturbance" and "Bulimic Thinking" 60
The Cultural Argument: Myths and Misconceptions 66
Responses to the Feminist Challenge: Change and Resistance 69
Beyond the Medical Model 72
Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity 76
Embodied Subjects and De-Subjectified Bodies 77
Fetal Super-Subjects and Maternal Incubators 85
Reclaiming Reproductive Subjectivity 98
Hunger as Ideology 103
The Woman Who Doesn't Eat Much 103
Psyching Out the Female Consumer 107
Food, Sexuality, and Desire 114
Men Eat and Women Prepare 121
Food and Love 125
Food as Transgression 132
Destabilizing Images? 135
PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS 139
Anorexia Nervosa Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture 142
Eating Disorders, Culture, and The Body 142
The Dualist Axis 147
The Control Axis 151
The Gender/Power Axis 157
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity 168
Reconstructing Feminist Discourse on the Body 168
The Body as a Text Of Femininity 171
Protest and Retreat in the Same Gesture 177
Collusion, Resistance, and the Body 180
Textuality, Praxis, and the Body 183
Reading the Slender Body 188
Contemporary Anxiety and the Enemy Flab 190
Slenderness and the Inner State of the Self 194
Slenderness and the Social Body 201
Slenderness, Self-Management, and Normalization 205
Slenderness and Gender 207
PART THREE POSTMODERN BODIES 216
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism 217
Contemporary Feminism and Gender Skepticism 218
From the "View From Nowhere" To Feminist Methodologism 220
The "View From Nowhere" and the Dream of Everywhere 227
The Retreat from Female Otherness 231
The Place of Duality in a Plural Universe 235
"Material Girl" The Effacements of Postmodern Culture 246
Plasticity as Postmodern Paradigm 246
Plastic Bodies 247
Plastic Discourse 259
"Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine 266
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance 277
NOTES 301
Introduction 301
Whose Body is This? 305
Are Mothers Persons? 309
Hunger as Ideology 317
Anorexia Nervosa 318
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity 328
Reading the Slender Body 332
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism 335
"Material Girl" 339
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance 341
INDEX 343
A 343
B 344
C 345
D 347
E 348
F 349
G 350
H 351
I 352
J 352
K 352
L 352
M 352
N 354
O 355
P 355
R 357
S 357
T 359
U 360
V 360
W 360
Y 361
Z 361
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""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.""--Amazon.com description
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By the 1983 meetings of the New York Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, palpable dissatisfaction was evident-largely among female clinicians-over the absence of any theoretical focus on gender issues.
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