Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biomedical Model, Eating Disorder, Heterosexism
22 Mar 2018
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Uses term eating problems rather than eating disorder . >eating problems gets away from the body that is to blame and looks at social structures. >problem suggests something that we need to work together to fix. One size fits all model does not work. Offers additional layer that medical model that does not. Media image exhort women to want a specific body. Problem: looks to gender alone; not race/class with structural factors. Ed"s largely affect white straight middle/upper middle class women. Corollary effect: delay in diagnosis and/or mis or under diagnosis for individuals and groups of women. Study is small and not representative of general population. Method: attempts to control her own bias by now imposing conceptual categories prior to the study, participants not just objects of study but active participants in compilation of data. All participants said trauma was a factor of their ed. Particularly experiences of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse; racism; sexism; heterosexism; poverty/classism; pressure to assimilate/acculturate.
