DVM 4330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ableism, Force-Feeding

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 4330
• Professor: Alberto Florez- Malagon

Document Summary

By david bell and gill valentine, chapter: the. Food and eating habits are not merely banal practices of everyday life. Food habits are central to our subjectivity because it affects our bodies and how we present our bodies to the world. The authors begins the chapter on the body, and explains the role of food in establishing an identity both physical manner and psychologically. Consumer society tends to our bodily necessities and established boundaries that the body should not cross by following societal norms within which our bodies are evaluated and judged. Images of bodies in media and culture are constant triggers in force feeding society an idealistic image one should strive to achieve. Men and women have been subjected to popular discourses in representing a fat free body, which symbolizes health and vitality. It is the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:271)e self-disciplined and to manage a culturally desirable body.