Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body ReductionSUNY Press, 01/01/1990 - 200 من الصفحات Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of "excess") which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose women's everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation. |
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Curative Voices AntiDiets and Experts | 7 |
The Aesthetics of Womens Health Watching Yourself Until Youre SixtyFive | 31 |
Speaking Transgressions Making a Believer of Me | 55 |
Family Relationships Mother Criticizes Father Compliments | 81 |
Womens Friendships Going Down to the Depths of You | 103 |
Romantic Relationships Getting Him to See Me | 127 |
Seeing the Mythology of Resolution I Could Write a Book About This | 153 |
Political Solutions Wait a Minute This is Crazy | 171 |
Appendix | 177 |
Notes | 181 |
References | 187 |
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acceptable aesthetics analysis androcentrism Ann Oakley anorexic anti-diets attention attractiveness beauty become behavior bodily body reduction body's capacity Chapter competition compliments condemnation confession confessional consumerism consumers cosmetic surgery daughter desire deviance diet book dieter dieting rebels disease dominant culture eating entails example excess experience fashion father feel female body feminine health feminine sexuality Fonda Foucault freedom friends gaze girls healthy women heterosexual identity ideological imagery images individual intimacy Jane Fonda judgment liberation Linn lives look lose weight male Marilyn French masculine metaphors Michel Foucault moral mother negative obesity oneself Overeaters Anonymous overweight panopticon person physical attractiveness points political position problems promoters relationships responsibility Robert Linn romantic seen signify slenderness social someone Susan Brownmiller Susie Orbach symbolic thin things tion transcendence transgressions unattractive underscores unhealthy viewed weight reduction woman women describe women suggest women's bodies women's friendships women's health