Noted author Susan Bordo to speak at University of Richmond

Susan Bordo, an award-winning author and professor, will speak at the University of Richmond about eating disorders on Feb. 3, at 7 p.m., in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall as part of the 2008–09 WILL/WGSS/Quest Speaker Series.

Her talk, titled “Beyond ‘Eating Disorders:’ Why We Need to Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew,” will cover the effect of body image issues on both women and men and society at large.

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 in Private and Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1993.

This is the third speaker in the series presented by the WILL (Women Involved in Living and Learning), WGSS (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies) and Quest programs. Each year, these programs bring prominent women and men to the Richmond campus to discuss issues surrounding gender and diversity-related issues.

A book signing will follow this event. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call (804) 289-8578.

Posted January 10, 2008