She has many young fans who email her about the positive effect her books have had on their lives. Her most recent books are The Creation of Anne Boleyn (available in US and UK editions, as well as a best-selling audiobook) and the just-released co-edited collection Provocations. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (1999,) one of the first in the then-emerging field of masculinity studies, was featured in Mademoiselle, Elle, Vanity Fair, NPR, and MSNBC, and has been hailed by men as one of the most sympathetic feminist accounts of their insecurities. Columnist Katha Pollitt named it one of the five best books in Gender and Women's Studies of 1993. Named a Notable Book of 1993 by the New York Times, it received a Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women In Psychology.

Unbearable Weight, a University of California Press best seller and the first book to draw attention to the profound role of cultural images in the spread of eating problems across race and class, is widely cited, anthologized and used in courses throughout the disciplines. The Flight to Objectivity is considered a classic of feminist philosophy. Her work has been translated into many languages, and individual chapters, many of which are considered paradigms of lucid writing, are frequently re-printed in collections and writing textbooks. Bordo has has numerous appearances in bookstores, in the media, and at academic institutions in connection with this highly topical work.īordo is known for the clarity, accessibility, and contemporary relevance of her writing.

This April, T he Destruction of Hillary Clinton was published by Melville House. ) 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) and Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought (with Ellen Rosenman and Cristina Alcalde) University of California Press, 2015. of California Press, 1997) and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1999) and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. of California Press, 1993), Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. 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. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Susan Bordo is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A.

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