Unbearable weight
Subtitle: feminism, Western culture, and the body
By: Susan Bordo ; with a new preface by the author ; new foreword by Leslie Heywood.
Edition: 10th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- United States; Body image -- United States; Self-esteem in women -- United States; Feminist criticism -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: c1993.