Susan Bordo

PhD, English, Women's Studies

State University of New York,
Stony Brook

Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities

Office: 111 Breckinridge
Phone: 257-1895
E-mail: bordo@uky.edu
Web: Women's Studies Profile

Areas 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.