SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Adolphe Quetelet, Susan Bordo, Hypersexuality
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Resulted in health insurance spikes for those who may be unhealthy in society. The body is natural it"s social - locus of social control (we can"t control race or gender, but we can control body type); social reproduction is all about regulating and controlling the body. 1998 clinton lowered a healthy bmi; people went from healthy to overweight by gov"t. Adolphe quetelet: early 19th c used european men as an average standard weight/height. Weight does not equal health; many mislabeling of overweight/obese. Genetic predisposition; bmi is very racist; overweight has lowest mortality weight. Eating disorders are actually becoming normal in american life. Expectation to constantly work on our bodies and perfect them; constantly changing. Anorexia nervosa: embodiment of body fixation and lack of control; this is how they give themselves self-control, feel powerful in their abilities; In a sense it is a shedding of femininity (disempowerment), it is taking control masculinity.
