HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Trouble, Consumer Capitalism, Judith Butler
27 Mar 2018
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In 1965 the average fashion model weighted 8 percent less than the average woman. Today the average model is 5"9 , 110 pounds, and wears size 0 or 2. Today"s average woman is 5"4 , 142 pounds: reading the slender body , susan bordo, feminist theorist. Semiotics - systematic study of culturally produced signs, signs are decoded" to uncover their meaning. All cultural productions are sign systems and so have meaning. The slender body encodes cultural meanings which can be made explicit. 186 - 187) images of the microcosm" - the physical body - may symbolically reproduce central vulnerabilities and anxieties of the. Macrocosm" - the social body (i. e. society at large, not the person) The slender tight body is the current ideal because it is a manifestation of the type of individual this society"s economic system requires. The anorexic/bulimic personality: self discipline and rigid denial at work/ indulge and purge on leisure time".
