Sociology
Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the ‘epidemic’ of anorexia in Western cultures to:
a generally ascetic, frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
traditional images of women as emotional, domesticated, and unassertive
the social construction of mental illness, through which ‘normal’ patterns of behaviour are pathologized
the new ideal of independent, self-assured femininity, combined with cultural values of achievement and control
the new ideal of independent, self-assured femininity, combined with cultural values of achievement and control
Feminist theories of eating disorders focus on the cultural pressures upon women in contemporary Western society. The internalized desire to achieve, be independent, and above all slim and attractive, creates ‘epidemics’ of anxiety in women. Bordo argued that some women resolve these dilemmas of self-identity through anorexia, which reflects both an acceptance of cultural images of beauty and a bodily protest against them. The anorexic woman achieves thinness and self-control, but presents a grotesque parody of what these goals mean. 310-311
the new ideal of independent, self-assured femininity, combined with cultural values of achievement and control Feminist theories of eating disorders focus on the cultural pressures upon women in contemporary Western society. The internalized desire to achieve, be independent, and above all slim and attractive, creates ‘epidemics’ of anxiety in women. Bordo argued that some women resolve these dilemmas of self-identity through anorexia, which reflects both an acceptance of cultural images of beauty and a bodily protest against them. The anorexic woman achieves thinness and self-control, but presents a grotesque parody of what these goals mean. 310-311
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