Unbearable Weight
Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11089949 |
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| Authors | Mimi Nichter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo, 2003 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2075082 |
| OpenAlex | W1970647968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives
Feminism · Political science · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies
American Dolorologies
Gör om mig
Diário de peso
Martirios y Teoría feminista
Masking (Not Masking) Up
Superstar e Safe de Todd Haynes
Maternalism and new imperialism in Russia
Body, gender, race and fatness in social studies. Gap and future
Das várias linguagens do poder contemporâneo
Mulheres reais
Negotiating Authenticity in Technological Environments
Crits e crips
I Did it For Me
Dance and body image
Negotiating (athletic) femininity
Weight stigma, fat pedagogy and rediscovering the pleasures of movement
More than meets the eye
In the shoes of young adolescent girls
Empowering swimmers and their bodies in and through research
Gut Feminism, new materialisms and sportwomen’s embodied health
Winning looks
Exploring news media representations of women’s exercise and subjectivity through critical discourse analysis
(Self-) surveillance and (self-) regulation
Narratives of adolescent women athletes’ body self-compassion, performance and emotional well-being
The ‘good mother’ discourse in ‘success stories’ of Australian weight loss centres
Searching for ontological security
Living Close to the Edge
The Woman in Pieces
Who Doesn’t Want to Be This Hot Mom?”
Bare Flesh and Sticky Milk
Soft skills and hard numbers
Body image and body work among older women
Aesthetic Capital
Food Ethics II
Sportswomen as ‘biocultural creatures’
Poner el Cuerpo
Embodiment in qualitative research
Images, language and numbers in company reports
Deconstructing Dissemination
Behind perfection
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism
This Is How We Travel
A scoping review of studies on self-tracking for weight management
The social life of lardo
Covibesity and the weight of the norms. A cultural epidemic
Covibesity e o peso das normas. Uma epidemia cultural
Bonny babies? Motherhood and nurturing in the age of obesity
Narratives of risk
Sport-'It's Just Healthy
Basically, it’s sorcery for your vagina’
Gendered perceptions of own and partner weight-level
The role of sociocultural perspectives in eating disorder treatment
Transgression for What? A Response to Simon Williams
From embodiment to evidence
Diagnosing the male steroid user
Paradoxes of Holism
Feminine famishment
Differences by degree
In pursuit of leanness
Health as moral performance
Narratives of reconstruction
Timescapes of obesity
Holding onto womanhood
The perils of health promotion and the 'barebacking' backlash
Contextualising eating problems in individual diet counselling
In Pursuit of the Study of Pleasure
Motherhood enjambed
Ritualized Christmas headgear or ‘Pass me the tinsel, mother
Headhunters and the ‘ideal’ executive body
Personalised nutrition
Koowhiti
Estudio comparativo de los procesos de socialización alimentaria de adolescentes diagnosticados y no diagnosticados de trastornos alimentarios (Comparative study of food socialization processes of teenagers diagnosed / not diagnosed with eating disorders)
Carved in Flesh
Women's Bodies of Performative Excess
Two Bodies in the Room
Is the Body Essential for Ecofeminism
Patriarchy Matters
Negotiating Sexual Agency
Circuit Breaking
Failing Bodies
Overcoming Ambivalence
The Experience of the Body Among Older Female Sex Workers
Pleasure, Pain, and the Power of Being Thin
Profile
Revolting Bodies
Disparate But Disabled
Deviance, Agency, and the Social Control of Women's Bodies in a Mennonite Community
Indo-Fijian women and sportive activity
Surveillance, Subjectivism and Technologies of Power
It's Still a Man's Game
Online news comments as a public sphere forum
Gender and Cultural Bias in Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in Sport
You can't be too vain to gain if you want to swim the Channel
Elite Women Wrestlers' Muscles
Reconceptualising Female Disordered Eating and Body-Image Perceptions
The Cult of Victorianism
The Struggle with Disease Taxonomy in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Time to Smile
Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body
Researching “experience”
| Highly cited | No |
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