ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Body Image, Stretch Marks, Weight Loss
13 Nov 2016
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For example, certain food items are deemed as bad or even evil like cakes, pastries temptation: finally, body image or body ideals are messages that society teaches and communicates to men and women. At worse, it connotes decay and rot: thinness is antithetical to goodness refers to being mean, stinginess and lack of sociability. They are seen as more fertile and able to provide more nutrients to the fetus and the baby. Western women and their relative failure or success in attaining body ideals. They carry the burden of meeting this ideal as individuals particularly in adolescence struggling to define themselves through their bodies. Whereas, nigerien arab women are seen not as individuals per se but as subjects embedded in social relations. Niger delta are differentially subjected to particular kinds of mainstream socially approved and valued bodily shapes. In the end, they become the object of the disciplinary powers of a patriarchal society.
