Eat Your Heart Out
Eating disorders have become a big problem around the World in places that people never would have expected. Susan Bordo in her article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” describes how and why eating disorders spread around the world, against prevalent cultural norms. According to the author the spread of eating disorders globally was fueled by western media.
The author begins by making the reader to envision a 115 pound anorexic young girl with “eating and body image problems”. This would make most readers assume that the girl in question is a Rich, American, white girl; from an image shaped by the media and magazines. But on the contrary the girl is revealed to be African American. This affirms the notion that eating
Eating disorders have become a big problem around the World in places that people never would have expected. Susan Bordo in her article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” describes how and why eating disorders spread around the world, against prevalent cultural norms. According to the author the spread of eating disorders globally was fueled by western media.
The author begins by making the reader to envision a 115 pound anorexic young girl with “eating and body image problems”. This would make most readers assume that the girl in question is a Rich, American, white girl; from an image shaped by the media and magazines. But on the contrary the girl is revealed to be African American. This affirms the notion that eating