In this book, Bordo brings a feminist cultural critique to bear on images of the female body in Western culture to argue that these images increasingly homogenize and normalize female embodiment, placing a deep emphasis on slimness and bodily control. Summary: Bordo is responding at once to the mind/body dualism in the history of philosophy that treats the body as a trap or prison for the mind, while also associating women with the passive body, but she is also challenging the medical model that treats eating disorders in the terms of pathology and resists cultural analyses of eating disorders that might have important consequences for the way we understand eating disorders. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.
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