“As part of membership in our society,

young women have to learn how to ‘be a

body.’”
–Sharlene
Hesse-Biber

Am I Thin Enough Yet?

 “Normalization offers a way of
understanding how women come to
regulate their own behavior in
often oppressive ways.”
--Sylvia Blood, Body Work
“Docile bodies are bodies whose
forces and energies are
habituated to external
regulation, subjection,
transformation, improvement.”

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish

“Pulling my head out of the toil
was the most political act
I ever committed.”
--Abra Chernik, “The Body
 “The one unifying factor that
clearly exists in cases of
anorexia and bulimia is the
construction of gender, as most
cases are among women.”
--Susan Bordo
“Eating Disorders…”
“Bodies no longer have to be damaged or
impaired to meet surgical alteration.”
--Kathy Davis
Reshaping the Female Body
“Cosmetic surgery illustrates
a technological colonization
of women’s bodies.”
--Anne Balsamo
Technologies of the Gendered
Body
The only organ
that should
be altered
is your MIND