Susan Bordo presents a very unorthodox approach to explaining anorexia in her book. Bordo clearly points out the fact that anorexia cannot simply be defined by the rules and restrictions of psychological and medical means but that it also has to do a lot with culture. Bordo removes the body aspect out of the physical context and embeds it in a cultural one to prove her point. She says that the human body is seen as being in conjunction with historical processes that resulted in biological events and that society has inevitably had direct physical influences on the human body.
Bordo also expresses her thoughts on the patriarchal structure of our society and is concerned that men are seen to dominate women because women are always seen as the weaker sex. She said that the female body is more vulnerable than male bodies to extremes in both forms of cultural manipulation of the body. So according to Brodo, which I find very interesting, is that anorexia is seen as a rejection of the traditional domestic roles that women are expected to pay in a patriarchal society. It is essentially a rebellion towards a male dominated society.
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