Unbearable Weight

I Wrote a Famous Book about Body-Hating and Never Mentioned my Own. Let me Correct that Now…

Susan Bordo
engendered
Published in
5 min readDec 2, 2020

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Last year, I was asked to write a preface to a forum that my former graduate students, now successful teachers and writers, had put together for the journal Frontiers. It was published in March 2019. Now, in December 2020, as I’m struggling with pandemic weight-gain, I thought others might identify. So, encouraged by Facebook

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Susan Bordo
engendered

Cultural historian, media critic, feminist scholar. Website: bordocrossings.com