FEM 2107 Lecture 8: WEEK EIGHT AND NINE READING NOTES
11 May 2017
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W e e k e i g h t van der meulen & durisin. How ca(cid:374)ada"s mu(cid:374)i(cid:272)ipal a(cid:374)d federal regulatio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)(cid:272)rease e(cid:454) workers". Discusses: how the bodily images of society impact women with disabilities. Medicalizing their bodies: how society views these women. Women with disabilities are socially connected to fat women: fat oppression, both groups are subjected to view their bodies as less desirable and not what society views as beautiful (cid:862)thi(cid:374)(cid:374)ess is ofte(cid:374) e(cid:395)uated (cid:449)ith health and success. Fat women, women with disabilities, women from a particular racial or ethnic groups do (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373) to the p(cid:396)es(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373) of so(cid:272)ial desi(cid:396)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)(cid:863) Media says only able-bodied women are beautiful: leads to medicalization/modificatio(cid:374) of the (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) the so(cid:272)ial (cid:862)othe(cid:396)(cid:863) to fit the (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)(cid:863, (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:271)odies a(cid:396)e o(cid:271)je(cid:272)tified fo(cid:396) (cid:373)ale pleasu(cid:396)e; (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olled, a(cid:374)d su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ted. (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of thei(cid:396) (cid:271)odies a(cid:374)d the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es has (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e disto(cid:396)ted. (cid:862)we a(cid:396)e taught to (cid:373)ist(cid:396)ust ou(cid:396) e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e and judgment about the notion of desi(cid:396)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)(cid:272)epta(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863)
