Susan Bordo Quotes

• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

  Susan Bordo

  Cancer, Men, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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