Psychology 2054A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Dieting, Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton, Bobby Sands

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2054A/B
• Professor: Foley

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Acts as a communication of: internal needs, conflicts, a sense of self. Individualized meanings of food are linked to issues of gender identity and being female. Food represents: sexuality, conflicts between guilt and pleasure, an expression of self-control, conflicts between eating and denial. Food and sexuality some foods are linked with sex and sexuality this is often seen in ads relationship between food and sex permeates many cultures and many times: e. g. , rite of passage ceremony. Eating meat can be seen considered to arouse sexual drives. Sexual language describes women or sex coming from food: e. g. , beefy, tart, chick, etc. Explanations include how food and sex are: both basic drives for survival, both perpetuate life, both are vulnerabilities. 200 mothers were studied in england: concluded that women are forced to provide healthy foods for their family but deny themselves food in order to remain sexually attractive.