""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.""--Amazon.com description
Susan Bordo Books
Susan Bordo is celebrated for the clarity, accessibility, and contemporary relevance of her writing. Her work primarily explores themes of body image, gender, and critical examinations of Western culture. Bordo possesses a remarkable ability to distill complex philosophical ideas into lucid and engaging prose, making her a significant author for readers interested in social theory and feminist philosophy. Her scholarship is valued for its intellectual depth and its capacity to resonate with current cultural conversations.
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Twilight Zones
- 252 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Considering everything from Nike ads, amaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, author Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. With compassion, honesty, and intelligence, Bordo questions the basis of our concepts of reality. 31 b&w photos.
"Personal memoir meets television history in a look back at how TV has changed, and how it has also changed us, over the past seven decades"-- Provided by publisher
The Male Body
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
An exciting new popular study of the male body--fresh, honest, and full of revelationsIn this surprising, candid cultural analysis, Susan Bordo begins with a frank, tender look at her own father's body and goes on to perceptively scrutinize the presentation of maleness in everyday life.Men's (and women's) ideas about men's bodies are heavily influenced by society's expectations, and Bordo helps us understand where those ideas come from. In chapters on the penis (in all its incarnations), fifties Hollywood, male beauty standards, and sexual harassment, and in discussions of topics ranging from Marlon Brando and Boogie Nights to Philip Roth and Lady Chatterley's Lover , Bordo offers fresh and unexpected insights. Always--whether she is examining Michael Jordan or Humbert Humbert, the butch phallus or her own grade-school experiences--she rejects rigid categories in favor of an honest, nuanced version of men as flesh-and-blood human beings.
The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
“If you want to understand not only what happened in 2016, but what’s going to happen tomorrow, this book is essential reading. Susan Bordo brings a scholar’s rigor and a lioness’ heart to this important work.” —Paul Begala “Among the best books I’ve read on the 2016 election . . . the perfect companion to Clinton’s What Happened.” —Peter Daou NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate—whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's—come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year and the events that led up to it, Susan Bordo unpacks the Rights' assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked suspicion and indifference among the youth vote, the inescapable presence of James Comey, questions about Russian influence, and the media's malpractice in covering the candidate. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history.