KINE 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Status Quo
4 Jul 2018
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Body Politics
What is the paradigm of kine 1000?
Social construction or simply constructivism
The body and human movement are sites for the inscription of cultural and social
meanings.
The ways, which we understand and relate to human bodies and human movement, are
defined according to cultural and social movement instead of natural and instinctual
thoughts.
The body is classified and defined according to social and cultural norms, at the expense
of oppressing other.
Body-based prejudices, inequalities and inequities can be challenged and changed. They
are not inevitable. (not set in stone)
They seem to be inevitable due to the normalization of our current ways of defining and
classifying bodies and human movement.
How does the Abra Chernik reading illustrate the paradigm of our course?
Mainstream culture’s ideas of the normal female body and womanhood are
dangerous to women’s health and wellbeing.
This highlights that these ideas are not ‘natural’
These ideas are based on unrealistic socially constructed norms
How does the reading challenge our common sense understanding of health?
We tend to think that culture and society always promote ideas of health that are good for
us.
The reading shows that this is not the case, especially for women.
Socially constructed norms of the ideal wholesome(healthy) female body promote “body
hatred and chronic dieting”.
We commonly think of fat as something toxic and antithetical to our health and wellbeing.
The less fat we have the better and the more healthy we are
The reading shows how wrong and dangerous this common sense idea can be.
In what way does the reading illustrate how stereotypes about bodies reinforce and
maintain inequity?
Mainstream culture’s idea of men’s health encourages males to build up their bodies, to
be confident beings in the world
In contrast, mainstream culture’s idea of women’s health encourages starvation and
vanishing.
Inequity means unfair. It is unfair that through socially constructed norms mainstream
culture empowers men and disempowers women.
Encouraging men to feel at home in their bodies and the world as physically powerful
beings while encouraging women to develop a dysfunctional relationship with their own
bodies as staving, self-obsessed and powerless beings in the world.
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Document Summary
The body and human movement are sites for the inscription of cultural and social meanings. The ways, which we understand and relate to human bodies and human movement, are defined according to cultural and social movement instead of natural and instinctual thoughts. The body is classified and defined according to social and cultural norms, at the expense of oppressing other. Body-based prejudices, inequalities and inequities can be challenged and changed. They are not inevitable. (not set in stone) They seem to be inevitable due to the normalization of our current ways of defining and classifying bodies and human movement. Mainstream culture"s ideas of the normal female body and womanhood are dangerous to women"s health and wellbeing. This highlights that these ideas are not natural". These ideas are based on unrealistic socially constructed norms. We tend to think that culture and society always promote ideas of health that are good for us.
