Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Unbearable Weight, Feminism, Western Culture,  and the Body......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION:  FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY......Page 8
Cultural Expressions of Mind-Body Dualism......Page 9
Woman as Body......Page 12
Activity, Passivity, and Gender......Page 18
Anglo-American Feminism, \"Women\'s Liberation,\" and the Politics of the Body......Page 22
Beyond the Oppressor/Oppressed Model......Page 30
Feminism as Systemic Critique......Page 36
Nature, Culture, and the Body......Page 40
Transcendence, \"Difference,\" and Cultural Transformation......Page 43
PART ONE DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY......Page 50
The Feminist Challenge......Page 51
Pathology, Culture, and the Medical Model......Page 55
\"Body Image Disturbance\" and \"Bulimic Thinking\"......Page 60
The Cultural Argument: Myths and Misconceptions......Page 66
Responses to the Feminist Challenge: Change and Resistance......Page 69
Beyond the Medical Model......Page 72
Are Mothers Persons? Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Subject-ivity......Page 76
Embodied Subjects and De-Subjectified Bodies......Page 77
Fetal Super-Subjects and Maternal Incubators......Page 85
Reclaiming Reproductive Subjectivity......Page 98
The Woman Who Doesn\'t Eat Much......Page 103
Psyching Out the Female Consumer......Page 107
Food, Sexuality, and Desire......Page 114
Men Eat and Women Prepare......Page 121
Food and Love......Page 125
Food as Transgression......Page 132
Destabilizing Images?......Page 135
PART TWO THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS......Page 139
Eating Disorders, Culture, and The Body......Page 142
The Dualist Axis......Page 147
The Control Axis......Page 151
The Gender/Power Axis......Page 157
Reconstructing Feminist Discourse on the Body......Page 168
The Body as a Text Of Femininity......Page 171
Protest and Retreat in the Same Gesture......Page 177
Collusion, Resistance, and the Body......Page 180
Textuality, Praxis, and the Body......Page 183
Reading the Slender Body......Page 188
Contemporary Anxiety and the Enemy Flab......Page 190
Slenderness and the Inner State of the Self......Page 194
Slenderness and the Social Body......Page 201
Slenderness, Self-Management, and Normalization......Page 205
Slenderness and Gender......Page 207
PART THREE  POSTMODERN BODIES......Page 216
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism......Page 217
Contemporary Feminism and Gender Skepticism......Page 218
From the \"View From Nowhere\" To Feminist Methodologism......Page 220
The \"View From Nowhere\" and the Dream of Everywhere......Page 227
The Retreat from Female Otherness......Page 231
The Place of Duality in a Plural Universe......Page 235
Plasticity as Postmodern Paradigm......Page 246
Plastic Bodies......Page 247
Plastic Discourse......Page 259
\"Material Girl\": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine......Page 266
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance......Page 277
Introduction......Page 301
Whose Body is This?......Page 305
Are Mothers Persons?......Page 309
Hunger as Ideology......Page 317
Anorexia Nervosa......Page 318
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity......Page 328
Reading the Slender Body......Page 332
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism......Page 335
\"Material Girl\"......Page 339
Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies,  Postmodern Resistance......Page 341
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