Journal of Humanity
Vol 5, No 1 (2017): February 2017

UNDERSTANDİNG SUSAN BORDO AND HER WORK; UNBEARABLE WEİGHT :FEMİNİSM, WESTERN CULTURE, BODY

DEMİR, ÇAĞLAR ( Balıkesir University)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Feb 2017

Abstract

Throughout history of thought, there have been many views about the women, their status in society, their struggle with patriarchy, and inequality  applied to them in all areas. There are different ways of oppression on women, such as confinement to home, inequality in wages between both sexes.  However, few scholars have written and declared their own views about how the patriarchal world and companies form women as they wish. Susan Bordo is one of  the most outstanding and distinguished feminist writers in the world who focuses on  how patriarchal capitalist understanding works on women’s body in terms of weight and weakness. According to Susan Bordo, male dominated capital world decides on women about what to wear and what to eat and women try to lose weight to be in the form men wish. State of  starving all the time leads to an illness called anorexia. The writer bases her views on the thoughts of literary critic and thinker, Foucault. The  objective of this article is to help the readers understand Susan Bordo’s views and analyse her impressive work; Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and  the Body  and make her known in academic world.

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JH

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Arts Humanities

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The International Journal of Humanity Open-access and Non-profit journal provides a forum for academics and professionals to share the latest developments and advances in knowledge and practice of humanities and social sciences. It aims to foster the exchange of ideas on a range of important ...