Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition | 
|  | | | Title: | Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition | | Author: | Susan Bordo
Leslie Heywood (Foreword) | | Publisher: | University of California Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 January, 2004 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0520240545 / 9780520240544 | | List Price: | $21.95 | | You Save: | $2.20 | | Amazon Price: | $19.75 | |
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Revised edition with new preface and foreword.
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• Brilliant, Relevant, A Must-read For Feminists 29 August, 2002
Although a challenging read for me at times, this book was full of "aha!" moments. I think Bordo nails it when it comes to how the issues women's size and appearance are portrayed in the media. I recommend this book highly to other feminists and those interested in media literacy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1Q85F1CX3USGU
• Insightful Critique Of Patriarchy/modern Culture/postmodernism 01 July, 2007
my favorite aspect of this collection of essays were the ones critiquing the excesses of postmodernism since they encourage a feminism grounded in reality. for instance, she critiques a music video produced by madonna in which she is the object of the voyeur. a postmodernist reviewer admired the film for playing with the boundaries of gender (due to a throwaway moment at the end of the video), but seriously, what is the reaction of normal viewers to the video? it just promotes the objectification of women. bordo acknowledges that race, class, and sexual orientation make it impossible to envision a quintessential female subject, but that power structures in society still impose similar demands of most women and postmodern critiques detract attention from reconstructing the power structures. her essays insightfully critique the media for producing images which encourage the repression of women (for example, images of slenderness, which values a "masculine" domination of the inner will). as a psychology student with faith in the ability of the clinical field to cure, her discussion of anorexia and bulimia as a culturally-driven phenomenon overcame my tendency to classify them as "psychological" problems.
as for her writing style, bordo is straightforward and persuasive. she presents examples to support each of her arguments, and she displays the power of philosophy to address societal concerns instead of being a field ultimately detached from the concerns of the modern subject. i would enthusiastically recommend this collection of essays to everyone.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1PC0R2Q7ZE6JY
• I Feels As Though Apathy Is Setting In. (oxymoron?) 26 April, 2008
I would say that this book is written from an academic perspective. I could see it being read in an Intro. to Femnist Theory course. That being said I did like this book. It could have been wordy, but it wasn't. I can't say that it wasn't readble. This book was good but I didn't love it. Unbearable Weight did not touch me the same way that some other feminist volumes have. I didn't have the same kind of visceral, electric reaction to it that I've had from other books. That was dissapointing. It was a little bit dry and for some reason felt a little outdated. This review is being written by a high school senior. I am not hoplessly hip or anything but this book just didn't have it's finger on the pulse of the younger feminist community. Not bad but certainly not great.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3ST5JEZINC1J
• This Book Was Earthshattering! 24 April, 2005
The first time I read Ms. Bordo's book, I was so into it that I didn't get enough sleep that night. This book tells us the brainwashing media and society use to control women as well as to maintain the power elite. If the elite, media or otherwise, didn't use impossibly thin, beautiful, made up blonde women to keep them divided and in control, the whole structure would have collapsed long time ago.
Thanks Ms. Bordo for informing me about this, for I've been in darkness for many years.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2VVOAR8QQIAVS
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