WS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Anorexia Nervosa, Heterosexuality, Binge Eating
21 Apr 2018
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Allows men to avoid the constraints of biological determinism through a construction of the male body as less grounded in, and able to transcend nature. The meanings associated with the body has to do with culture and the society we are from. Imperialism and globalization frame meanings about the body power and control over the body. Culture becomes embodied and inscribed in the body we become cultural artifacts. Objectification occurs when a human is made into a thing with no value aside from the ability to be bought or sold. Broad institutional support for objectification of multifaceted femininities in our culture. We are encouraged to focus on the body as something we can control and something we can use to express identity and is used to be a distraction from economic and political concerns. Tattoos and piercings are seen as things that are used to rebel against the government but contributes to the capitalist economy and makes someone rich.
