Unbearable Weight

Unbearable Weight
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780520930711
ISBN-13 : 0520930711
Rating : 4/5 (711 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Unbearable Weight by : Susan Bordo

Download or read book Unbearable Weight written by Susan Bordo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape—finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"—Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001)


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