SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: The Fortunes, Binge Eating Disorder, Complete Control
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The body is not just biology, immutability is an error of a belief. Immutability: the idea that our bodies are something we have inherited, fully made up by genes and thus not a product of society. How we manage our bodies is learnt while how others see us is also the product of common expectation. Bodies as a task: something to work on which requires daily care and attention. Once working on our body has been formed, society sets the standards for a desirable and approved shape. Our bodies are the objects of social conditioning. Body as a site of anxiety: watch what they eat, drink, and breathe. As a result we have a whole industry and set of marketing techniques that are part of the discourses of the body. Ie. foods that are good or bad for us. As a result, we have an industry that prompts us to seek sensation and exciting experiences.
