| Edition |
10th anniversary ed. |
| Description |
xxxviii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: c1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : 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. |
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Body image -- United States.
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Self-esteem in women -- United States.
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Feminist criticism -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0520240545 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780520240544 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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