Susan Bordo
Biographic Data
| ID | 302025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Bordo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bordo |
| SIGNATURE | BORDO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
The ideal of slenderness, then, and the diet and exercise regimens that have become inseparable from it, offer the illusion of meeting, through the body, the contradictory demands of the contemporary ideology of femininity. The body may also operate as a metaphor for culture. From quarters as diverse as Plato and Hobbes to French feminist Luce Irigaray, an imagination of body-morphology has provided a blueprint for diagnosis and/or vision of soci…
Beauty (re)discovers the male body
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought
The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist his…
Dummy Article Title
The extent to which English law remedies injury to autonomy (ITA) as a stand-alone actionable damage in negligence is disputed. In this article I argue that the remedy available is not only partial and inconsistent (Keren-Paz in Med Law Rev, 2018) but also gendered and discriminatory against women. I first situate the argument within the broader feminist critique of tort law as failing to appropriately remedy gendered harms, and of law more broad…
Musings: Adoption
Adoption
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Unbearable weight: Feminism, Western culture, and the body
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 …
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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 deliciou…
All of Us Are Real: Old Images in a New World of Adoption
This personal essay is a reflection on what it means to be involved in the process of adoption in a society that has developed fantasies—through movies, books, and television programs—about adoption that often differ from and run counter to “real” adoption stories. “Real” is a word that is deeply analyzed in this essay; what is a real adoption? What is the reality of adoption? What is a real family? What are real parents? What is a real child? To…
‘Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body’
The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
Pills and Power Tools
Twilight zones: The hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J.
Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. She builds on the provocative themes introduced in her acclaimed work Unbearable Weight - which explores the social and political underpinnings of women's obsession with bodily image - to offer a singularly readable and perceptive interpretation of our image-saturated culture. As it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between appearance and r…
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O. J.
Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body
Den slanka kroppens budskap
It is argued that the cultural context, or at least some elements of it, has conditioned the flourishing of ealing disorders - anorexia, bnlimia, and obesity - in onr time. The first step in that argument is a decoding of the contemporaiv slenderness ideal so as to reveal the psychic anxielies and moral valuations contained vvithin il - valuations concerning the correct and incorrect management of impulses and desire. There are two dilferent svmb…
Maleness” Revisited
My response to the preceding commentaries draws on recent events such as the Thomas/Hill hearings to illustrate some of my central arguments in “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy.” I also attempt to clarify frequently misunderstood aspects of my use of gender as an analytical category, and discuss why, in my opinion, we should continue to care about the “maleness” of philosophy
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies
The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes' arguments as "timeless," culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human ex…
The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies
The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought
Pills and Power Tools
Maleness” Revisited
My response to the preceding commentaries draws on recent events such as the Thomas/Hill hearings to illustrate some of my central arguments in “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy.” I also attempt to clarify frequently misunderstood aspects of my use of gender as an analytical category, and discuss why, in my opinion, we should continue to care about the “maleness” of philosophy
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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 deliciou…
Den slanka kroppens budskap
It is argued that the cultural context, or at least some elements of it, has conditioned the flourishing of ealing disorders - anorexia, bnlimia, and obesity - in onr time. The first step in that argument is a decoding of the contemporaiv slenderness ideal so as to reveal the psychic anxielies and moral valuations contained vvithin il - valuations concerning the correct and incorrect management of impulses and desire. There are two dilferent svmb…
The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes' arguments as "timeless," culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human ex…
The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought
The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
The Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes' arguments as "timeless," culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human ex…
Maleness” Revisited
My response to the preceding commentaries draws on recent events such as the Thomas/Hill hearings to illustrate some of my central arguments in “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy.” I also attempt to clarify frequently misunderstood aspects of my use of gender as an analytical category, and discuss why, in my opinion, we should continue to care about the “maleness” of philosophy
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies
Den slanka kroppens budskap
It is argued that the cultural context, or at least some elements of it, has conditioned the flourishing of ealing disorders - anorexia, bnlimia, and obesity - in onr time. The first step in that argument is a decoding of the contemporaiv slenderness ideal so as to reveal the psychic anxielies and moral valuations contained vvithin il - valuations concerning the correct and incorrect management of impulses and desire. There are two dilferent svmb…
Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body
Twilight zones: The hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J.
Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. She builds on the provocative themes introduced in her acclaimed work Unbearable Weight - which explores the social and political underpinnings of women's obsession with bodily image - to offer a singularly readable and perceptive interpretation of our image-saturated culture. As it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between appearance and r…
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O. J.
Pills and Power Tools
‘Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body’
The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
All of Us Are Real: Old Images in a New World of Adoption
This personal essay is a reflection on what it means to be involved in the process of adoption in a society that has developed fantasies—through movies, books, and television programs—about adoption that often differ from and run counter to “real” adoption stories. “Real” is a word that is deeply analyzed in this essay; what is a real adoption? What is the reality of adoption? What is a real family? What are real parents? What is a real child? To…
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
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 deliciou…
Unbearable weight: Feminism, Western culture, and the body
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 …
Musings: Adoption
Adoption
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dummy Article Title
The extent to which English law remedies injury to autonomy (ITA) as a stand-alone actionable damage in negligence is disputed. In this article I argue that the remedy available is not only partial and inconsistent (Keren-Paz in Med Law Rev, 2018) but also gendered and discriminatory against women. I first situate the argument within the broader feminist critique of tort law as failing to appropriately remedy gendered harms, and of law more broad…
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought
The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist his…
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
The ideal of slenderness, then, and the diet and exercise regimens that have become inseparable from it, offer the illusion of meeting, through the body, the contradictory demands of the contemporary ideology of femininity. The body may also operate as a metaphor for culture. From quarters as diverse as Plato and Hobbes to French feminist Luce Irigaray, an imagination of body-morphology has provided a blueprint for diagnosis and/or vision of soci…
Beauty (re)discovers the male body
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.
Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Body image (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)