Women’s bodies, therefore, become the framework of the way we perceive women, the roles they play within our society, and how they even perceive themselves. Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (U of California Press, 1993) is put together by Bordo’s various lectures, talks, and published essays on the liberal feminist ideology that the female body is a cultural construct designed by Western culture-its prejudices and misconceived ideals-towards women and the place of their bodies.
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