Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Foreword: Reading Bordo IX
4. In the Empire of Images: Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition XIII
5. Acknowledgments XXXVII
6. Introduction: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body 1
7. PART ONE. DISCOURSES AND CONCEPTIONS OF THE BODY
8. Whose Body Is This? 45
9. Are Mothers Persons? 71
10. Hunger as Ideology 99
11. PART TWO. THE SLENDER BODY AND OTHER CULTURAL FORMS
12. Anorexia Nervosa 139
13. The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity 165
14. PART THREE. POSTMODERN BODIES
15. Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender Skepticism 215
16. Material Girl" 245
17. Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies, Postmodern Resistance 277
18. Notes 301
19. Index 343