FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pinterest, Bodymind, Medical Model

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

These messages for kids tell them it"s bad being fat: healthism , situates the prb of health and disease at the level of the individual. Solutions are formulated at that level too. : in the pop cultural arena, we can see healthism in some of the fitspirational messages on pinterest. According to ferguson, the term was defined by. Ppl who eat organic are the healthiest : erasure of food security and social determinants of health as an issue or consideration, what does an intersectional analysis of fat phobia reveal, killing us softly question on exam!! 3: the systematic, institutional devaluating of bodies and minds deemed deviant, abnormal, defective, subhuman, less than (brown, they are characterized by the cultural, social, political, legal and economic oppression of ppl w/ disabilities. Ableist societies are structured to privilege the normate body/mind w/ cultural, political and social institutions and norms reflecting that body.