KINE 1020 Study Guide - Final Guide: Body Modification, Olivier De Schutter, Patricia Hill Collins

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1020
• Professor: N.Richardson

Document Summary

They are not inevitable. (not set in stone: they seem to be inevitable due to the normalization of our current ways of defining and classifying bodies and human movement. In what way does the reading illustrate how stereotypes about bodies reinforce and maintain inequity: mainstream culture(cid:495)s idea of men(cid:495)s health encourages males to build up their bodies, to be. )n contrast, mainstream culture(cid:495)s idea of women(cid:495)s health encourages starvation and vanishing. And how is this relevant to the paradigm of our course: politics is concerned with the way society is organized. Hence the political act, of challenging and prevailing gender stereotypes. Collins argues that to more effectively disrupt systems of oppression, we need to adopt new ways of thinking about it. Her idea is that each person"s role and position in the slave plantation institution contributes to everyone else"s domination and subordination to this institution and the ideology (of patriarchy) it promotes and perpetuates.