Women's Studies 2250E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anti-Fat Bias, Double Bind, Ableism
31 Aug 2017
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People have a difficult time prying apart the idea of fitness from weight loss. Most women who embark on a fitness routine have weight loss among their primary goals. Sport and fitness provide microcosms of feminist concerns with power, privilege, entitlement, and socialization. Themes that emerged from a feminist examination of fitness: equality, inclusivity, empowerment, and the aesthetics of feminine embodiment: equality, half of all u. k. seven-year olds do not do enough exercise, with girls far less active. 38 percent of girls achieved the recommended hour of physical activity each day, compared with 63 percent of boys. ,(cid:494)according to data from an ongoing national science foundation study, married women still do two to three times more childcare and housework than men (17 28 hours per week for women, versus 7 10 hours for men). )ntersectionality is (cid:494)(cid:494)the idea that various forms of oppression interact with one another in multiple complex ways(cid:495)(cid:495: people are not just men or women.
