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Author	Bordo, Susan, 1947-
Title	Unbearable weight : feminism, Western culture, and the body / Susan Bordo.
Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	305.4 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	x, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-342) and index.
Contents	Discourses and conceptions of the body -- The slender body and other cultural forms -- Postmodern bodies.
Subject	Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
	Human body -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Body image -- United States.
	Self-esteem in women -- United States.
	Feminist criticism -- United States.
Added Title	Feminism, Western culture, and the body
ISBN	0520079795 (alk. paper)

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