Unbearable Weight
by Bordo, Susan
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 homogeneous 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 Sus…
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- Full title :Unbearable Weight / Susan Bordo.
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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 homogeneous 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.
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- Publication Date:©2003
- Edition:Tenth Anniversary edition, reprint 2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (400 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520930711, 0520930711
- DOI:10.1525/9780520930711
- oclc:on1198929208
- LC Classification:HQ1220.U5
- Dewey Decimal:305.42
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