Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, And Body

In Susan Bordo’s novel “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, she illustrates the impact that media has on women and their relationship to their bodies. Susan Bordo highlights how modern advertising has morphed what women think of as an “ideal appearance”. Bordo utilizes factual evidence, modern allusions and examples to portray the consequences of an idealized figure on a contemporary woman. Although Bordo’s argument is mostly based on philosophy, she uses logos to ground her opinions. Before depicting her thoughts about the impact of an idealized body on women, Bordo defines the basic elements of her argument by providing evidence about “$1.75-billion-a-year industry in the United States” (Bordo). The inclusion