ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Susan Bordo, Azawagh Arabs, Anorexia Nervosa
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3 axes of continuity in euro-american body ideals. Crystallization: the way that various cultural logics and values comes together, and sustain each other, in. E. g. the tyranny of slenderness in north america. Chapter 7 the way that ppl inhabit space is socially constructive. How these different cultural logics come together to describe closeness, endogamy, how they come together to enforce fatness is beauty. Fat bodies are beautiful because they are closed and since they are women body they are different from men body. They are different from men"s body because they are closed and still. Ur pouring in islamic logic, gender complementary, economy, endogamy, closeness and u get the fat body. Our obsession on thinness is similar to the arabs way of fatness. Popenoe talks abt how the arab women didn"t understand that the thin women were actual women. It takes our normal view of healthy body and makes it into a flaw.
