Power and slenderness are sometimes associated with one another.
These are our cultural conceptions of the body, norms of beauty, models of health, and so forth.” The useful body is basically the practical rules of society, the “ trained, shaped, obeys, responds.” These two bodies often support each other and mirror one another. “The intelligible body includes our scientific, philosophic and aesthetic representations of the body. Bordo mentions that there are two different types of bodies, the intelligible body and the useful body. These women are those who are obsessed with their practices, which create these afflictions, they are simply unable to create the necessary change in their life. I don’t think I agree with that statement. “A number of feminist writers have interpreted anorexia as a species of unconscious feminists protests.” These women, however, don’t even know that they are creating a protest. Society is teaching women to feed others and not themselves and these rules are constantly reinforced by commercials and such. Stay home, that men would go out into the world and make the money while the women stayed at home all day cooking, cleaning and taking care of the kids.Īnorexia is more of a recent development and it generally is created because of the idea that women should be extremely slim, it is the norm these days. I believe the best way to explain this section is that “content in a world of bedroom and kitchen, sex, babies and home!” These women were taught to The 1950s and early 1960s were the time period where BordoĬoncentrates on agoraphobia. These are all the symptoms of hysteria and yet these were the qualities that society valued in women. This can be seen in the way that they drifting and fogging of perception, the nervous tremors and faints, etc. Hysteria was seen in the 19th century, however it was seen that a lady was idealized in terms of delicacy and dreaminess, sexual passivity, and a charmingly unbalanced and unpredictable emotionality. She goes into great detail about how many women just “don't feel good enough.” These diseases mainly afflict white upper and middle class women and although they are concentrated in different areas of time, its not to say that all three did not exist at the same time. Bordo talks about three main afflictions to the female population: hysteria, agoraphobia, and anorexia nervosa. This article was extremely interesting as it presents the problems in today’s society past society and how it affects women.
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