Authors:Susan Bordo, Susan Bordo,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: reading, canon, descartes, rene, interpretations, feminist
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271018585
ISBN-13: 9780271018584

A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of: the implications of Descartes’ epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology; the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women; the historical context of his intellectual relations with women; and an exploration of reasons why his female critics have been so erased from the contemporary history of philosophy. The contributors to this volume are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario

Author: Susan Bordo
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: series, philosophy, culture, cartesianism, objectivity, essays, flight
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 1987-07-01
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 0887064108
ISBN-13: 9780887064104

Author: Susan Bordo
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: images, plato, cultural, life, zones, hidden, twilight
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1999-02-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520211022
ISBN-13: 9780520211025

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.

Author: Susan Bordo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: private, public, men, new, male
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2000-07-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0374527326
ISBN-13: 9780374527327

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 discu

Authors:Susan Bordo, Leslie Heywood,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: tenth, anniversary, culture, western, weight, feminism, unbearable
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520240545
ISBN-13: 9780520240544

"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women’s magazines are always describing delicious food as ’sinful’ and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of

Author: Michael D. Bordo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, macroeconomic, history, essays, collected, standard, related, regimes, gold
Number of Pages: 538
Published: 1999-05-13
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0521550068
ISBN-13: 9780521550062

This book contains a collection of Michael D. Bordo’s essays written singly and with colleagues on the classical gold standard and related regimes based directly or indirectly on gold convertibility. The gold standard (and its variants) was the basis for both international and domestic monetary arrangements from the third quarter of the nineteenth century until 1971 when President Nixon closed the US gold window, effectively ending the Bretton Woods International Monetary System. Although the gold standard and its variants are now history, it still has great appeal for policymakers and s

Authors:Michael D. Bordo, Anna J. Schwartz,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: economic, research, conference, report, bureau, national, classical, gold, standard, retrospective
Number of Pages: 689
Published: 1984-09-01
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0226065901
ISBN-13: 9780226065908

This is a timely review of the gold standard covering the 110 years of its operation until 1931, when Britain abandoned it in the midst of the Depression. Current dissatisfaction with floating rates of exchange has spurred interest in a return to a commodity standard. The studies in this volume were designed to gain a better understanding of the historical gold standard, but they also throw light on the question of whether restoring it today could help cure inflation, high interest rates, and low productivity growth. The volume includes a review of the literature on the classical gold standard