Bordo, Susan (Rebecca)

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BORDO, Susan (Rebecca)

BORDO, Susan (Rebecca). American, b. 1947. Genres: Philosophy. Career: Duke University, visiting associate professor, graduate faculty, women's studies, 1989; Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, associate professor of philosophy, 1987-93, Joseph C. Georg professor, 1991-94; University of Kentucky, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the humanities, professor of philosophy, 1994-. Publications: The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture, 1987; Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, 1993; Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J., 1997. EDITOR: (with A.M. Jaggar) Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, 1989; Feminist Interpretation of Descartes, in press. Address: Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Paterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A.