Unbearable Weight
Subtitle: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780520088832
Subjects: Feminism; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science; United States; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Body image; Body, Human; Social aspects
First sentence: By the 1983 meetings of the New York Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, palpable dissatisfaction was evident-largely among female clinicians-over the absence of any theoretical focus on gender issues.