„Thinspirations”. Choroba, literatura i kobiecość
“Thinspirations”. Illness, literature and femininity

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopa
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this essay is to analyze cultural myths of feminine diseases, such as hysteria, anorexia and bulimia nervosa, from the feminist perspective. Since anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, both being amongst the most life-threatening diseases of our times, became the metaphor of Western culture, we can assume that “hysterization” of female body, using Michel Foucault’s term, has been replaced by the phenomenon of “slenderization.” Feminist researchers, however, ask whether eating disorders could be seen as a new expression of feminine insubordination towards patriarchal practices of disciplining women’s bodies.

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