TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bordo,Susan
TI  - Twilight zones: the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. 
SN  - 0520211014 (alk. paper)
AV  - E169.Z82 B729t 1997
U1  - 306 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Body image
KW  - Populaire cultuur
KW  - gtt
KW  - Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
KW  - Menselijk lichaam
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - âEtats-Unis
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Consommateurs
KW  - Image du corps
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -