Unbearable weight
About this book
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition, Susan Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. Infatuated with youth, surrounded by homogenous representations of beauty, they surrender themselves to plastic surgeons in ever greater numbers for larger breasts, smaller noses, collagen-plumped lips and wrinkle-free faces. The author's preface brings the book up to date in 2003 and Leslie Heywood's foreword places Susan Bordo's work in the front ranks of the research on women and their bodies.
Subjects
- beauté féminine (esthétique)
- body image
- critique féministe
- discrimination & race relations
- eating disorders
- estime de soi chez la femme
- feminine beauty (aesthetics)
- feminisme
- feminismus
- feminist criticism
- frau
- human body
- human body, social aspects
- image du corps
- körper
- kulturanthropologie
- lichaamsattitude
- lichamelijkheid
- minority studies
- postmodernisme
- schönheit
- self-esteem in women
- social aspects
- social aspects of the human body
- social science
- sociology