Foreword : Reading Bordo / Leslie Heywood -- In the empire of images : Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Discourses and conceptions of the body -- Whose body is this? Feminism, medicine, and the conceptualization of eating disorders -- Are mothers persons? Reproductive rights and the politics of subject-ivity -- Hunger as ideology -- The slender body and other cultural forms -- Anorexia nervosa : Psychopathology as the crystallization of culture -- The body and the reproduction of femininity -- Reading the slender body -- Postmodern bodies -- Feminism, postmodernism, and gender skepticism -- "Material Girl" : The effacements of postmodern culture -- Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies, postmodern resistance.
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