ANTA02H3 : key terms
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Susan bordo : 3 axes of continuity in euro-american body ideals (contemporary issues) We now have less control of our lives than 100 years ago. Fear of controlling lives: the gender/power axis: (women gaining more power thus shift in gender role) women more obsessed with body and less satisfied. Money can"t buy a good feeling about oneself. (women more controlled, related to other axis). Trying to divert attention from power with body. Crystallization of culture: the way that various cultural logics and values comes together, and sustain each other, in real " embodied form through body ideals: e. g. fatness as beauty for azawagh arabs, e. g. the tyranny of slenderness in north america. Primitive (or traditional) versus modern: cultural characteristics not objectively defined. Primitive: backward, uncivilized ethnocentric approach whereas modern is happening now. The couple in a cage: couple displayed in a cage, people who came to look had the urge to discover new people and studies.
