Questioning medical discourse on eating disorders
LTValgymo sutrikimai dažnai yra nulemti psichologinių, medicininių bei socialinių ir kultūrinių priežasčių. Straipsnyje analizuojami valgymo sutrikimai kaip socialinės aplinkos padariniai, teigiama, kad būtent kultūra formuoja ir konceptualizuoja valgymo sutrikimus kaip patologiją. Pateikiama valgymo sutrikimų feministinė analizė, taip pat aptariama moters kūno patologija ir gydymas, kritiškai žvelgiant į ribas, skiriančias „patologiją“ ir „normą“. Atlikto praktinio tyrimo tikslas - pokalbiai su hospitalizuotomis merginomis, kurioms diagnozuoti valgymo sutrikimai, siekiant nustatyti šių sutrikimų priežastis.
ENHistorically, common activities such as eating were interpreted as matters of social values and health. Specific social and cultural conditions have been promoting control of women's appetite but for different reasons. For centuries, certain religious women engaged in self-starvation as a way to develop self-discipline. In various cultures and at different points in history, thin bodies for women were idealized in an apparent attempt to restrain women's sexual desire [17]. In Victorian society food started being feared because it ivas connected with physical ugliness. Food and eating implied digesting and defecation which by no means could fit into Victorian femininity. As a result, by the end of the nineteenth century a thin body symbolized purity of the soul whereas fatness was linked to stupidity and lower status [5,187].
