The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo

The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo

Bordo s sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read. Boston Globe
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a reconstruction of Boleyn s life and an illuminating look at her very active afterlife in the popular imagination. With recent novels, movies, and television shows, Anne has been having a twenty-first-century moment, but Bordo shows how many generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers have imagined and reimagined her: whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto- mean girl, feminist icon, and everything in between. Drawing on scholarship and razor-sharp analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history s most intriguing women, teasing out what we actually know about Anne Boleyn and what we think we know about her.
Riveting . . . Bordo s eloquent study not only recovers Anne Boleyn for our times but also demonstrates the ways in which legends grow out of the faintest wisps of historical fact. Book Page
Engrossing . . . Ms. Bordo offers a fascinating discussion. New York Times
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] Susan Bordo is the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her first book, The Flight to Objectivity, has become a classic of feminist philosophy. Her widely read and cited Unbearable Weight, followed by The Male Body, have shaped thinking about culture and body image.

Bordo, Susan: - Susan Bordo is Professor Emerita at the University of Kentucky, USA, where she held the Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities. She has published many influential books, on subjects that range from femininity, masculinity, and the body (Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private) to Anne Boleyn (The Creation of Anne Boleyn) and, most recently, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, a play-by-play account of the gendered double-standards and stereotypes, political forces and media culture that contributed to Clinton's loss in the 2016 election (2017) and Imagine Bernie Sanders as a Woman and Other Writing on Politics and the Media 2016-2019 (2020.) Her widely cited books and articles are considered paradigms of accessible, interdisciplinary scholarship.

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ISBN 13	9780547328188
ISBN 10	0547328184
Title	The Creation of Anne Boleyn
Author	Susan Bordo
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2013-04-09
Number of pages	343
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