February 09, 2001

Author Susan Bordo To
Visit WKU On Feb. 28

Bowling Green, Ky. - Susan Bordo, author of "The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private," will visit Western Kentucky University Feb. 28.

Bordo, a professor of English and Women's Studies, is the Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her slide presentation on "The Rediscovery of the Male Body" begins at 8 p.m. at the Garrett Conference Center auditorium.

"The Male Body" has earned critical acclaim and has been featured in numerous magazine, radio and television reports.

Bordo lectures 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 the media.

Her 1993 book "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body" focused attention on the role of cultural images in the spread of eating problems. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include "The Flight to Objectivity: Essays and Cartesianism and Culture" and "Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J."

Bordo's presentation is sponsored by Women's Studies and co-sponsored by Potter College, Folk Studies, English, Sociology and the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series.

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