Eating Disorders and Culture

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The purpose of this research is to examine eating disorders and the effects that mass media have on the culture, both male and female within it, that may lead to such disorders. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the social and cultural context for consideration of eating disorders and the philosophical theory of Susan Bordo on the subject, and then to discuss how Bordo interprets the phenomenon of eating disorders as a cultural artifact of the modern period.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine eating disorders and the effects that mass media have on the culture, both male and female within it, that may lead to such disorders. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the social and cultural context for consideration of eating disorders and the philosophical theory of Susan Bordo on the subject, and then to discuss how Bordo interprets the phenomenon of eating disorders as a cultural artifact of the modern period.

In the background of discourse on eating disorders is the discourse of the body, particularly the image of the ideal female body, that dominates the enterprise and perceptual experience of Western popular culture. This ideal is so familiar as to elude explanation, but its relevance consists in the fact that the vast majority of women in the world have simply never been able to ..."

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