Dualism, binaries, differences race and gender

Bordo- Unbearable weight: feminism, Western

culture, and the body.

 The body, as anthropologist Mary Douglas has argued, is a powerful symbolic form, a
surface on which the central rules, hierarchies, and even metaphysical commitments
of a culture are inscribed and thus reinforced through the concrete language of the
body.

Articles:
 Anti-abortion views are leaked into Europe (macrosociology), forcing any women in
Europe to seek abortions In the Netherlands. For example, Poland in 2021, imposed a
near-total ban on abortions including the termination of pregnancies with foetal
defects, after this change in law the Netherlands clinics saw a rise in polish women.
Seeking their services.
 Charities such as BPAS (British pregnancy advisory service) state that the NHS current
abortion laws are making life ‘more difficult’ for providers, clinicians and women
themselves.
 In 2019, British parliament voted for legislation ending criminalization of abortions in
Northern Ireland.
 Recent criminalization in the Stoke-on-Trent conviction has
highlighted how restrictive and draconian UK abortion laws
are.
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