Susan Bordo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Kentucky

Welches Potenzial hat feministische Wissensproduktion für die kritische Medienforschung? In gegenwärtigen Medienkulturen sind die gesellschaftlich stets umkämpften Prozesse der Herstellung, Legitimierung, aber auch Transformation von Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnissen unübersehbar mit medialen Repräsentationen, Technologien und Praktiken des Medie...

Anne Boleyn (b. 1501–d. 1536), Henry VIII’s second wife, is an endlessly fascinating historical figure about whom we know very little with certainty, yet who has inspired countless works, both fictional and nonfictional. The significant events of her life and death—Henry VIII’s courtship and the momentous historical ruptures that followed, the birt...

My response to the preceding commentaries draws on recent events such as the Thomas/Hill hearings to illustrate some of my central arguments in “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy.” I also attempt to clarify frequently misunderstood aspects of my use of gender as an analytical category, and discuss why, in my opinion, we should co...

Over the last twenty-five years, feminist theory has been at the forefront of cultural, disciplinary, and philosophical critique. Yet feminists continue to be represented as engaged in specialized projects of concern only to women or, at best, those interested in “gender issues.” I argue that this is not merely a bit of residual sexism, but a power...

The rise in the number of young girls resorting to cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance is discussed. The role played by television and other visual media in fostering this trend is discussed. The rhetoric of feminism has been adopted to help advance and justify the industries in anti-aging and body-alteration. Face-lifts, implants, and lip...

In the clinical literature on eating disorders, the description, classification, and elaboration of “pathology” has been the motor of virtually all research. In the leading journals, attempts to link eating disorders to one or another specific pathogenic situation (biological, psychological, familial) proliferate, along with studies purporting to d...

Les " Meditations " de Descartes comme miroir de l'anxiete epistemique de son epoque et comme reponse a cette inquietude contemporaine de la separation entre monde " interieur " et monde exterieur. Analyse de cette separation en termes de psychologie du developpement : c'est l'univers maternel du Moyen Age, l'unite homme-nature, qui se scinde, perm...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1982. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-309).