Twilight zones : the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. / Susan Bordo.
Twilight zones : the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. / Susan Bordo.
Twilight zones : the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. / Susan Bordo.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
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N306/158
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English
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x, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Braveheart, Babe, and the Contemporary Body -- P.C., O.J., and Truth -- Never Just Pictures -- Can a Woman Harass a Man? -- Bringing Body to Theory -- The Feminist as Other -- Missing Kitchens / Susan Bordo, Binnie Klein and Marilyn K. Silverman.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
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California
Date Published
c1997.
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Looking to the body and bodily practices as an arena in which cultural fantasies and anxieties are played out, Bordo examines the mystique and the reality of empowerment through cosmetic surgery. Her incisive analysis of sexual harassment in the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill controversy, as well as in films such as Disclosure, challenges media-driven...
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Twilight zones : the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. / Susan Bordo.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
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c1997.
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N306/158
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74VMbGkVwPNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbGkVwPNZ
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ISBN
0520211022 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780520211018 (alk. paper)
0520211014 (alk. paper)
9780520211018 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520211014 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520211025 (pbk : alk. paper)
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306
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991000847519702626
