SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Externality, Michael Pollan

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

Document Summary

Study of how fat bodies can be medicalized. Medical problems to be solved in the name of promoting health. Focus on the individual making the right choice for themselves and neglecting the social determinants. People in minority groups should be taught to eat better. The idea that various forms of oppression, based on gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and so on, have an impact on how the others are experience. Having to worry about where to store food. Iterative - as one performs the gender their identified with; when one is performing foodwork, they"re also performing (not an act) gender (but they"re also performing (not an act) gender (but subjectivity/identity) Drive to rationalize the emphatic separation of the mind from the body, the elevation of thought over embodiment. The words interlocking and simultaneous oppression are bearing/acting on women, trans-people, minority groups.