Susan Bordo
Otis A. Singletary Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook
Email: bordo@uky.edu
Phone: 257-1895
Office: 111 Breckinridge
ResearchAreas of Specialty:
- Contemporary Culture and the Body
- Eating Disorders, Cosmetic Surgery, Beauty and Evolutionary Theory
- Racism and the Body
- Masculinity and the Male Body
- Sexual Harassment
- Impact of Contemporary Media
Selected Publications
- The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture. SUNY Press, 1987.
- Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. U. of California Press, 1993.
- Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. U. of California Press, 1997.
- Editor, Feminist Interpretations of Descartes. Penn State Press, 1999.
- The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
- Co-editor (with Alison Jaggar), Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press, 1989.