Women’s Diets and Standards of Beauty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conduct Literature ◽  
Dietary Recommendations ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Anthropology Of The Body ◽  
Women And Power ◽  
Standards Of Beauty ◽  
Gain Access

Looking beyond gynaecological issues, how did standards of beauty affect dietary recommendations, what women ate, and how they presented themselves? Obesity, while viewed differently than it is today, was considered a factor in women’s fertility. It was also related the sin of gluttony and other sins which demonstrated a lack of self-mastery of bodily appetites. Examining conduct literature is one way to gain access to cultural expectations of the female body. Religious concerns about self-presentation could also manifest in what has been called “holy anorexia.” The anthropology of the body suggest that what women eat and how they look are deeply embedded social constructs which reveal culture attitudes towards gender difference, women, and power.

The Anthropology of the Body

RAIN ◽  
1978 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
J. B. ◽  
John Blacking
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Anthropology Of The Body

Organization of Therapeutic Nutrition in a Complex of Therapeutic Measures for Acute Glomerulonephritis

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Elena Vitalievna Perminova
Keyword(s):  
Salt Content ◽  
The Body ◽  
Acute Glomerulonephritis ◽  
Dietary Recommendations ◽  
Excretory Function ◽  
Special Diet ◽  
Organization Of Care ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Therapeutic Measures ◽  
High Incidence Rate

Organization of care for patients with glomerulonephritis is a rather urgent problem today, due to the high incidence rate and the tendency to progression of renal dysfunction. When discussing treatment issues, it is necessary to pay attention to the fulfillment of three basic requirements for patients, which include normalization of the life regime (in particular, the exclusion of night work, avoiding stressful situations and heavy physical activity when having high blood pressure), the implementation of certain dietary recommendations and prolonged drug treatment [3]. Diseases of the kidneys as the main organ, the affection of which leads to a deterioration of excretory function, require a special diet with a restriction of a number of products. Against the background of glomerulonephritis disruption of the process of glomerular filtration, which in some cases leads to the development of renal failure, it is necessary to reduce the intake of food substances that can have a negative effect on the body — alcohol, smoked meats, spicy, salty foods, preserves, sausages, foods with high protein and salt content. Moreover, one should also take control of the amount of fluid consumed and ensure compliance with the frequency and regularity of food intake.

scholarly journals Nickname as a Means of Linguistic Self-Presentation in the Internet of People with Eating Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-430
Author(s):  
Vitaliia Shebanova ◽  
Tetiana Yablonska
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Nutritional Problem ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Female Audience

The article analyzes the peculiarities of language self-presentation of Internet users. The results of the study of nicknames as means of linguistic self-presentation of persons with eating disorders in the specialized Internet forums are presented. The psychological analysis of users’ nicknames of sites of anorexic and overweight individuals is presented which gives an opportunity to assert that nicknames reflect the specific nutritional problem and self-administration of a person in connection with it. The predominance of the female audience of such sites is revealed and hence the greater urgency of the problem of standards of the body for women. In the process of analysis, on the basis of psycholinguistic and projective approaches, the main categories of nicknames are singled out: exo-decorative names; metaphorical, decorative and mysterious nicknames; mythical and fantasy characters; destructive, problem image; names that reflect the physical status, etc. It has been established that nicknames as attributes of linguistic self-presentation of users of specialized forums, is a symbolic projection of the discourse of their existence and reveals the features of real or desired body parameters; dissatisfaction with weight, with your body, yourself and life in general; fixation on the issue of nutrition and weight reduction; the desire to be fenced off from reality. Differences in the linguistic self-presentation of anorexics and overweight individuals are revealed, in particular, a more positive modality of self-presentation of overweight individuals; the representation of various categories of linguistic self-presentation in these groups which allows to assert the difference in the mechanisms of psychological protection in these groups of users. The analysis of the features of nicknames as a means of linguistic self-presentation is useful both for the purpose of psychodiagnostics of people with eating disorders, as well as in the process of developing and providing them with psychological assistance.

Hysteria in Psychoanalysis – from Symptom to Discourse. (Hysterical and Psychoanalyst – a (non) love affair)

Diogenes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Motsinova-Brachkova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
Unexpected Findings

Hysteria offers a particularly appropriate discourse for bringing out the unconscious, since its symptoms show how, through conversion, mental suffering manifests itself as bodily. Analytical work creates a transfer clinic and relies on a specific use of the word, which leads to unexpected findings. The development of the psychoanalytic approach today makes it clear that in order to understand hysteria, it must not be equated with femininity. The main issue of the hysterical subject is actually the issue of gender difference. Lacanian psychoanalysis introduces the idea of giving up the body in hysteria and associates the hysterical symptom with a lack of identification.

Censorship and Its Changing Taboos on the Egyptian Stage—From Politics and Religion to Sexual Frustration

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Dina Amin
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
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When asked about “political control of a population,” Michel Foucault responded, “[P]ower had to gain access to the bodies of individual, to their acts, attitudes, and modes of everyday behavior . . .I believe that the political significance of the problem of sex is due to the fact that sex is located at the point of intersection of the discipline of the body and the control of the population.” This insight is often reflected in the relationship between literature that deals with the body and the discipline imposed on it by various institutions (whether religious or social) in the form of censorship. One good example of that “ethical” exercise of power versus dramatic literature emerged when Sameh Mahran, a professor at the Cairo Academy of Arts, wrote Al-Marakbi (The Boatman), a play in two acts with an epilogue.

Chewing gum for the ears: children's television and popular music

Popular Music ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lury
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Chewing Gum ◽  
Music Television ◽  
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Television is one of the earliest ways that children gain access to popular music. The child's early experience of both music and television does not necessarily separate out ‘music alone’ from his or her evolving musical appreciation. The co-operation of television and popular music encourage particular modes of attention and expression for the child as both viewer and listener. Movement, gesture, and the response of the body to the visual and aural cues of music-television may be seen to inform this appreciation. The child learns, feels and demonstrates that they have done so. This is guided and inspired by what they hear and see.

Body Satisfaction in Adolescence

1971 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Standards Of Beauty

Body-satisfaction and self-satisfaction scales based on the work of Secord and Jourard (1953) were given to 146 male and 194 female adolescents ranging in age from 11 through 19 yr. Response tendencies of males and females are significantly different, females expressing more dissatisfaction with themselves and their bodies than do males. The expression of body- and self-satisfaction was not related to age for this range. Despite differences in response tendencies, male and female adolescents tended to react to body- and self-satisfaction items in a similar fashion. For both sexes the same degree of relative dissatisfaction was expressed for those aspects of the body experience associated with growth, namely, height, weight, and physique. It is also suggested that the relative expression of dissatisfaction with height, weight, chest, waist, and hips may reflect cultural factors associated with concerns with weight gain in an affluent society, rather than concerns with stylized standards of beauty.

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