SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Body Modification, American Psychiatric Association, Invisible Disability
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Embodied selves: like anything else about us, the circumstance of living in society makes an enormous amount of difference to our bodies, e. g. Culture, environment, influences of people: society in which you live has direct influence on your body. Body as site of anxiety: we watch closely what we eat, drink and breathe, body is betraying us from inside, any food or air may do harm to the body or prove downright poisonous. It"s not surprising, therefore, that we find a whole industry and set of marketing techniques that are part of discourses of the body: e. g. foods that are good for us and other that are bad for us. Industry of drugs that advertise which would make us feel better about ourselves. Pursuit of health and fitness: part of the concern with our bodies, to train them, exercise them is to be more healthy and fit, both aims are commendable.
