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Twilight zones : the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J / Susan Bordo

Bordo, Susan, 1947-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997

Online Ressource (x, 279 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Twilight zones

978-0-520-91997-6 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-91997-1 (electronic bk.); 0-585-05449-5 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-05449-0 ( : electronic bk.)

0-520-21101-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 42855050     

OCoLC: 42855050 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

E169.04

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SSG-Nummer(n): 5,1

LOC-SH: Popular culture -- Psychological aspects -- United States ; Consumers -- Attitudes -- United States ; Body image -- United States -- United States ; Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects ; Consumers -- United States -- Attitudes ; Body image -- United States ; Body image -- United States ; Consumers -- United States -- Attitudes ; Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Body image ; Consumers ; Attitudes ; Popular culture ; Psychological aspects ; Populaire cultuur ; Afbeeldingen (algemeen) ; Menselijk lichaam ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Pop-Kultur

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 / with Bonnie Klein and Marilyn K. Silverman.

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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 appearance and reality, Bordo argues, we need to rehabilitate the notion that not all versions of reality are equally trustworthy. 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 caricatures of sexuality. Bordo also sharply diagnoses the continuing marginalization of feminist thought, in particular the failure to read feminist work as cultural criticism. In a final powerful collaborative essay entitled "Missing Kitchens," Bordo and her sisters Binnie Klein and Marilyn Silverman explore notions of bodies, place, and space through a moving recreation of the topographies of their childhood