WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Intersectionality, Susie Orbach, Double Bind
17 Jan 2013
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Joan jacobs brumberg, the body project: an intimate history of american girls (1997) Girls today make the body into an all consuming project in ways young women of the past did not brumberg. Before ww1: girls" diaries focus on spiritual improvement (not bodies) How to be better person, not have better thighs! Popular media: actresses who never diet; photo shopping; make-up; magazines. 2 symbolic roles of body shape size: 1. Muscles: working out, marker of social status. Another form of the double bind (can"t win) Susie orbach, fat is a feminist issue (1978) Anorexia and compulsive eating related syndromes: one is over exaggeration and other rejection. Abigail saguy, why fat is a feminist issue . Orbach not very different from other perfection models eat less, lose weight, get happy, you can cope! Food is not just a white woman"s issue. Eating affected by sexual abuse, violence, racism, sexism. Ignoring obese women, she should just lose weight .
