SOAN 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Anorexia Nervosa, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
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10 the body and the reproduction of femininity (susan bordo) The body a powerful symbolic form, a surface on which the central rules, hierarchies, and even metaphysical commitments of a culture are inscribed and thus reinforced through the concrete language of the body. (mary douglas) Not only a text of culture, a practical, direct locus of social control (philosopher michel. Our conscious politics, social commitments, and strivings for change may be undermined and betrayed by the life of our bodies. Through the organization and regulation of the time, space, and movements of our daily lives, our bodies are trained, shaped, and impressed with the stamp of prevailing historical forms of selfhood, desire, masculinity and femininity. There is a pursuit of an ever-changing homogenizing, elusive ideal of femininity: ex. Requirement to minute and whimsical changes in fashion: female bodies become docile bodies: normalizing discipline of diet, makeup, and dress.