How long does it take to read Unbearable Weight?
Susan Bordo
Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo takes about 6 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 361 pages, about 99,275 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition, Susan Bordo examines how women's fantasies of transcending their material existence have led to narcissistic efforts to reinvent themselves. Infatuated with youth, surrounded by homogenous representations of beauty, they surrender themselves to plastic surgeons in ever greater numbers for larger breasts, smaller noses, collagen-plumped lips and wrinkle-free faces. The author's preface brings the book up to date in 2003 and Leslie Heywood's foreword places Susan Bordo's work in the front ranks of the research on women and their bodies.
Subjects: Body image, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Feminist criticism, Human Body, Self-esteem in women, Social aspects of the Human body
