Author Susan Bordo will speak about eating disorders at University of Richmond

March 25, 2009

Author and professor Susan Bordo will speak about rethinking what we know about eating disorders at the University of Richmond April 14.

Her lecture, "Beyond Eating Disorders: Why We Need to Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew," is part of the 2008-09 lecture series, "Politics of the Body," sponsored by Women Involved in Living and Learning, the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, and Richmond Quest.

She will speak at 7 p.m. in the Alice Haynes Room in Tyler Haynes Commons. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Bordo holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches English and gender and women's studies. Her books include "The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private" and "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body," which was a New York Notable Book of the Year in 1993.

A book signing will follow Bordo's talk. For more information, call (804) 289-8578.