Women's Studies, Philosophy & Religion, the School of Social and Community
Services, and Speakers & Special Events are pleased to announce that

Award-Winning Cultural Critic Susan Bordo will deliver a multimedia
presentation entitled

"The Empire of Images"

February 27th, 3pm, Fletcher 100

All Are Welcome!

For more on Susan Bordo, please read below:


Susan Bordo is a Professor of English and Women's Studies and holds the
Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky.
She lectures nationally on contemporary culture and the body, featuring
topics such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, beauty and evolutionary
theory, racism and the body, masculinity and the male body, sexual
harassment, and the impact of contemporary media.

She is the author of 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)
and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux,1999.) She is also editor of Feminist Interpretations of
Descartes (Penn State Press,1999) and co-editor (with Alison Jaggar) of
Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
(Rutgers University Press, 1989.)

In the words of Susan Squier, professor of literature at Penn State
University, Bordo's writings "can be said to have catalyzed the birth of
the new interdisciplinary field of work known as `body studies'."
Unbearable Weight, a University of California Press best seller whose 10th
anniversary edition will be published in 2003, was the first book to draw
attention to the profound role of cultural images in the spread of eating
problems across race and class. It is widely cited, discussed and
anthologized and used in courses throughout the disciplines. Named a
Notable Book of 1993 by the New York Times, it was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize and received a Distinguished Publication Award from the Association
for Women In Psychology. Columnist Katha Pollitt named it one of the five
best books in Women's Studies of 1993. The Chronicle of Higher Education
did a major piece on the book and Bordo's influential work on cultural
images of the body.

Bordo's most recent book, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in
Private, was published in June 1999 to critical acclaim. Hailed by Michael
Kimmel as establishing Bordo as "the Tocqueville of Gender Studies," The
Male Body has been featured in Mademoiselle, Elle, Vanity Fair, The New
York Times Magazine, George, Ladies Home Journal, and has been the subject
of numerous radio and television interviews, including NPR's "Morning
Edition" and MSNBC's "Special Edition With Ann Currie." Most recently,
Bordo was prominently featured in a Learning Channel Documentary, "The
Science of Beauty."