'"Unbearable Weight" is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more - in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape - finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it' - Katha Pollitt, "Nation" columnist and author of "Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture" (2001).
- ISBN10 0520240545
- ISBN13 9780520240544
- Publish Date 1 January 2004 (first published 7 September 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English