ANTA02H3 Final: Final Exam Terms with Definitions
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Class 7: susan bordo: did research work on anorexia nervosa in america in women. She believes that it anorexia is the crystallization in north america. She believes that there are three axes of continuity that converge in anorexia. Dualist axes which makes a woman believe that her body is wrong, confining and limiting. Gender/ power axis makes the women believe that the body is too much and creates anorexia subconsciously and the control axis is that women are developing, they are being controlled in one realm but not in another. The more a women gains power the thinner she must become: body ideals and crystallization of culture: way that cultural values and logics come together and are sustain each other in real embodied forms through body ideals. For example in feeding desire the cultural values of the. Azawagh arabs such as closedness, immobility and other cultural value are embodied in woman"s bodies through fatness.
