Susan Bordo (1947- )
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.  She is also co-editor (with Alison Jaggar) of Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing.  She lectures nationally on contemporary culture and the body, focusing on topics such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, racism and the body, masculinity and the male body, sexual harassment, and the impact of contemporary media.