What does Bordo see as historical ironies of the fact that these appear in a time and culture in which women’s roles were being expanded? (women seek mastery of own bodies, 2368) Which three phenomena does she isolate as examples of internalized gender oppression? What do they share in common? (2365-2366, agoraphobia, hysteria, anorexia) How in Bordo’s view should the insights of Foucault be used to modify the insights of earlier feminism? (2364, subject can collude with forces which sustain oppression) What forms of gender oppression, in Bordo’s view, seem to apply across all other variables (such as race and ethnicity)? Is this borne out by the examples she gives? What does she believe to be a major problem of contemporary women? (2063) What are features of Bordo’s style and language? Are these unusual for someone trained as a philosopher?ĭoes Bordo share any assumptions with Althusser? Are gender norms mediated through ideological state apparatuses? To what do you attribute these similarities and differences? For example, how does a focus on “the body” rather than literature alter the emphasis of analysis? How does Bordo’s tone and emphasis resemble or differ from that of Woolf and other feminists we have read? What is referred to in the title, “Unbearable Weight”? Why does Bordo believe that there is a need for “reconstructing feminist discourse on the body” (subtitle)? Chapter 5, “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” (1989)
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