Susan Bordo

Susan Bordo is a feminist scholar in the field of cultural studies. She is particularly known for her work examining gendering of bodies in popular culture works, as well as body image and the beauty standard.

Works

• The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture (1987)
• Editor, with Alison M. Jaggar, Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing (1989)
• "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of Foucault" (1989) (in Gender/Body/Knowledge ed. Bordo/Jaggar)
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993)
• Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (1997)
• The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (1999)
• Editor, Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes (1999)

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