Производство женской телесности в современном массовом обществе: культ худобы и тирания стройности
Production of women's physicality in contemporary mass society: the cult of thinness and the tyranny of slenderness

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes normativity of a thin body for woman corporality production in the modern mass society. Tyranny of slenderness expresses positive senses of a thin body and negative senses of an obese body. The author considers the connection between the standard of corporality and gastronomic practices. A thin body expresses the ability for inner nutrition and independence from empirical reality. It is an ideal object of visual consumption.

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