Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo

Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Proud to be B-Corp

Our business meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. In short, we care about people and the planet.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in Australia
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
  • Buy-back with Ziffit

Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo

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.
Susan Bordo is Professor of Philosophy and Singletary Chair of Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture (1987) and co-editor of Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing (1989).
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780520088832
ISBN 10 0520088832
Title Unbearable Weight
Author Susan Bordo
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1995-03-15
Number of pages 362
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.