WGSS 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eating Disorder

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1104
• Professor: Terri Smith

Document Summary

My reflection paper is on the reading handout the body politic by abra fortune. Chernik from listen up: voices from the next feminist generation, ed. In this article, abra fortune chernik speaks on how women portray their bodies and how they should portray their bodies. She includes her personal life, in which she talks about what she went through physically and emotionally with her eating disorder, anorexia. She includes how she made a mistake, in which she doesn"t want any other woman, her daughters, or the next feminism wave to make. She speaks on how women should eat what they want, and to not starve themselves trying to not gain weight. During her recovery from anorexia, abra fortune chernik has loaded three and a half mead marble notebooks with five years" worth of cogitation on how her eating disorder had knotted and twisted her life and ruined her relationships.