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  1. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.Susan Bordo - 1993 - University of California Press.
    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.
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  • Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images From Plato to O.J.Susan Bordo - 1997 - University of California Press.
    Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, 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 (...)
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  • Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations.Bell Hooks - 2006 - Routledge.
    Controversial and polemical, this work targets cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, and presents a collection of feminist explorations that pulls no punches.
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  • (1 other version)Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science.Londa Schiebinger - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 28 (2):369-371.
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  • Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality.Michael Awkward - 1995 - University of Chicago Press.
    Encamped within the limits of experience and "authenticity," critics today often stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, and vigilantly guard the boundaries against any incursions into their privileged territory. In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating such "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing our cultural boundaries. From Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It to Michael Jackson's physical transmutations, from Toni Morrison's (...)
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  • Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory.Iris Marion Young - 1990
    Feminist social theory and female body experience are the twin themes of Iris Marion Young's twelve outstanding essays written over the past decade and brought together here. Her contributions to social theory raise critical questions about women and citizenship, the relations of capitalism and women's oppression, and the differences between a feminist theory that emphasizes women's difference and one that assumes a gender-neutral humanity. Loosely following a phenomenological method of description, Young's essays on female embodiment discuss female movement, pregnancy, clothing, (...)
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  • The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future.Sandra G. Harding (ed.) - 1993 - Indiana University Press.
    "The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding... has also created a useful text for diverse classroom settings." —Library Journal "A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended." —Choice "This is an excellent collection of essays that should prove useful in a wide range (...)
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  • Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay.Naomi Zack (ed.) - 1997 - Routledge.
    ____Race/Sex__ is the first forum for combined discussion of racial theory and gender theory. In sixteen articles, avant-garde scholars of African American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black masculinity and mixed-race identity.
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  • Anatomy of Racism.David Theo Goldberg (ed.) - 1990
    Essays examine the conceptual nature of racism, and trace the history of its attempts at scientific, philosophical, political, legal, and cultural expression.
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  • (1 other version)Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections.Kwame Anthony Appiah - 1996 - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 17:51-136.
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  • Remaking the She-Devil: A Critical Look at Feminist Approaches to Beauty.Kathy Davis - 1991 - Hypatia 6 (2):21 - 43.
    Cosmetic surgery provides a problematic case for feminist theorizing about femininity and women's relationship with their bodies. Feminist accounts of femininity and beauty are unable to explain cosmetic surgery without undermining the women who opt for it. I argue that cosmetic surgery may have less to do with beauty and more to do with being ordinary, taking one's life into one's own hands, and determining how much suffering is fair.
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  • Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies.Kathryn Pauly Morgan - 1991 - Hypatia 6 (3):25 - 53.
    The paper identifies the phenomenal rise of increasingly invasive forms of elective cosmetic surgery targeted primarily at women and explores its significance in the context of contemporary biotechnology. A Foucauldian analysis of the significance of the normalization of technologized women's bodies is argued for. Three "Paradoxes of Choice" affecting women who "elect" cosmetic surgery are examined. Finally, two utopian feminist political responses are discussed: a Response of Refusal and a Response of Appropriation.
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  • (1 other version)Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections.Kwame Anthony Appiah - 1998 - In Amy Gutmann & Kwame Anthony Appiah (eds.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Princeton University Press. pp. 51--136.
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  • (1 other version)The Mismeasure of Man.Stephen Jay Gould - 1984 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (1):141-145.
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  • (1 other version)Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science.Londa Schiebinger - 2006 - Science and Society 70 (4):550-555.
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  • (1 other version)The Mismeasure of Man.Stephen Jay Gould - 1983 - Ethics 94 (1):153-155.
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  • The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition).Naomi Wolf - 2015 - Random House.
    Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma – how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. In this shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf’s groundbreaking book. It is a radical, gripping and frank exposé of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its (...)
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  • Body Talk: Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender.Jacquelyn N. Zita - 1998 - Columbia University Press.
    This collection of essays, which includes a revised version of a famous article on the "male lesbian," addresses such issues as race, gender, and sexuality, and explores the body as a physical, psychological, and cultural construct.
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  • (1 other version)Malcolm's conk and Danto's colors; or, four logical petitions concerning race, beauty, and aesthetics.Paul C. Taylor - 1999 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (1):16-20.
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  • Throwing like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory.Iris Marion Young - 1991 - Hypatia 6 (3):218-221.
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