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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body.

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1995 · Vol. 24(1) · pp. 42–42

Mimi Nichter✉Susan Bordo(University of Kentucky)

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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.

French Historical and Cultural StudiesFeminismGender studiesSociologyPolitical science

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