ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Susan Bordo, Biological Determinism, Crystallization
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Key terms: cultural/ social constructionism, biological determinism. Susan bordo: body ideals and "crystallization" of culture, 3 "axes o. When they talked to women it was around domestic life, marriage, etc. In feeding desire it"s another perception of gender - gender complementary: explain relationship between men and women. "crystallization of culture" in body ideals: crystallization: the way that various cultural logics and values comes together, and sustain each other, in "real" embodied form through body ideal, metaphor used for north american used by bordeau, e. g. How are they similar: by comparing them it helps us figure out how our own body ideals are constructed, north americans have a standard of female beauty which is slim, young, obsessive as fattening is for azawagh women. Idea that being slim is good just as taken for granted being beautiful as fat for the arabs.