The body and sexuality in cultural representation: an interview with Susan Bordo

Karmakar, Goutam

doi:10.1080/09589236.2020.1860740

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“…Images and discourse of manhood, womanhood, and nonbinary gendered selves are part and parcel of individuals’ gendered socialization. Bordo notes, “Images of the body…are ‘never just pictures’…not only do they construct our ideas of the ‘normal,’ and disappointment in the actual, but also they carry fantasized solutions to our anxieties and insecurities” (Karmaker 2020). Thus, we flesh out the ways in which bloggers/vloggers perceived their eating disorders as developing as a coping mechanism in managing gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia as comorbidities.…”

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“…. .not only do they construct our ideas of the 'normal,' and disappointment in the actual, but also they carry fantasized solutions to our anxieties and insecurities" (Karmaker 2020). Thus, we flesh out the ways in which bloggers/vloggers perceived their eating disorders as developing as a coping mechanism in managing gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia as comorbidities.…”

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Dying to be (A)Gendered: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Trans/Nonbinary People’s Experiences with Eating Disorders

Zamantakis

Lackey

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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Recent studies have found trans individuals to experience high rates of eating disorders. Prior studies have mixed findings of eating disorder rates of trans/nonbinary people with eating disorders. Recent and prior studies, though, have primarily originated within Public Health and Psychology, with little to no research examining trans/nonbinary people's experiences with eating disorders in the field of Sociology. As such, we analyzed 16 blogs and vlogs (video blogs) of trans/nonbinary people speaking and/or writing about the onset of their eating disorders, reasons for development of eating disorders, and experiences in accessing treatment. Content analysis of these blogs and vlogs serve as an exploratory analysis to provide suggestions for future research, including: institutional cisnormativity in eating disorder treatment, the use of eating disorders as a way of coping with the anxieties of doing gender in a binary society, and the relations of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria.Eating disorders are "a constellation of social, economic, and psychological factors" of individuals who do "not feel entitled to exist" (Bordo 2003:47). This constellation of factors produces individuals who internalize a societal "tyranny of slenderness" to its extreme and individuals who internalize the cultural dictation to indulge and then repent for (or purge) that indulgence (Bordo 2003). This constellation of factors differs according to individuals' differential access to resources and varying, intersecting vulnerabilities. For trans people, one such factor may include how bodies are gatekept in the process of seeking gender affirmation surgery. For example, in preparing for gender confirmation surgery, the webpage of Dr. Marci Bowers (2017), a renowned gender confirmation surgeon in the United States, tells potential patients that they must weigh less than 210 pounds "unless height/weight proportional." In a recent interview (Rodriguez 2017), Pilipinx, trans activist and artist Kay Ulanday Barrett highlighted that his "general practitioner initially refused to clear him for top surgery. . .because of his BMI." Cissexism, or the cultural and systemic ideology that denies, denigrates, and pathologizes individuals whose genders do not align with their sex assigned at birth, alienates individuals from their bodies and erects barriers to accessing resources, such as eating disorder treatment. While the fields of Public Health and Psychology are increasingly analyzing

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Section: The Interconnectedness Of Gender Dysphoria and Body Dysmorphiamentioning

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Dying to be (A)Gendered: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Trans/Nonbinary People’s Experiences with Eating Disorders

Zamantakis

Lackey

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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“…Consequently, it can be argued that dualism can exert negative influences on the practice of health professionals, especially (but not limited to) those observing mental health. Also, as has been established before, this stance has been criticized and questioned because it may obscure how gender, race and class issues shape our body and health (Karmakar, 2021; Lee, 2014).…”

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“…Believing that the mind and the body do not correspond in any way to each other can become, for example, an obstacle to the diagnosis of psychiatric symptoms secondary to physical disorders, can result in the underestimation of physical interventions on mental health, or may lead to consider the patients as responsible or blameworthy for their ailments (Glannon, 2020; Miresco & Kirmayer, 2006). Moreover, a strict dualistic stance may predispose these professionals to ignore or downplay the importance of material conditions of existence, the effects that cultural practices can have in the shaping of the body and subjectivity, among other problems that have been raised by critical scholars (Karmakar, 2021; Lee, 2014). That is why it is vital to be able to improve the understanding of the factors affecting or determining this philosophical stance in order to design strategies aimed challenging strict dualistic conceptions during the formative period of future health practitioners.…”

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Knowledge of theory of evolution and beliefs as determinants of dualism in health science students

Zappala

López

Aguirre

et al. 2022

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It has been proposed that dualistic conceptions on the mind and the body can affect the practice of health professionals. Religious beliefs have already been described as affecting mind-body dualistic thinking. Another factor that may play a role is knowledge of evolutionary theory, but this relationship has not been explored. In this work, data on knowledge of evolutionary theory and supernatural and dualistic beliefs of 287 Psychology and Medicine university students from Argentina were collected through a cross-sectional online survey. Information was analyzed to determine whether an association exists between knowledge of evolutionary theory, supernatural beliefs and dualism. We found significant statistical associations between supernatural beliefs and dualism (positive) and between both and knowledge of evolutionary theory (negative). Also, some heterogeneity was found within dualistic questions between theoretical and case-scenario questions. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that knowledge of evolutionary theory could undermine mind-body dualistic conceptions.

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“…El ser humano es un animal [184] social, simbólico y narrativo (DeGrazia, 2005;Holmström y Bagga-Gupta, 2013). Los elementos clave en la construcción de la identidad son la educación (Manning, Johnson y Stern, 2017;Manning, 2019;Chocarro, Cortiñas y Marcos-Matás, 2021;Jang, 2021;Roien, Graugaard y Simovska, 2021), la cultura (De-Caso-Bausela, González-de-Garay y Marcos-Ramos, 2020; Karmakar, 2020;Campbell, 2021;Dalziell, 2021;Petherbridge, 2021) y el contexto socio-político (Padilla-Castillo, 2014;Gomes, Murta, Facchini y Meneghel, 2018;Prati, Crisp y Rubini, 2021;McKinney, 2021;McCandless y Elias, 2021). La construcción de la identidad es un proceso que se desarrolla a lo largo de toda la vida del ser humano.…”

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Transfobia en Twitter. El caso Rachel Levine al comienzo de la presidencia de Joe Biden

Rey

Castillo

Altozano

2022

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El 19 de enero de 2021, el presidente norteamericano, Joe Biden, propuso a la Doctora Rachel Levine como subsecretaria de Salud. Es la primera persona trans que ocupa un cargo gubernamental federal. La transfobia afloró en Twitter, donde numerosos usuarios se burlaron de Levine, la atacaron por su aspecto e insistieron en que era un hombre. El objetivo de este trabajo es entender, cuantitativa y cualitativamente, las repercusiones del nombramiento. Investigamos los hashtags con los que se etiquetaron los tuits tránsfobos, determinamos cuándo comenzaron a publicarse, cuándo se alcanzó el pico y cuándo decayeron, e identificamos a los usuarios más populares, con la aplicación Hashtagify.me. Profundizamos en el contenido de los tuits que reflejan la transfobia y determinamos sus características y tendencias. El rol conservador de los medios destaca en Estados Unidos y se muestra también en España. Cuando la noticia debían ser el currículum y los hitos de Levine en el Estado de Pensilvania, los medios españoles optaron por reírse de sus parecidos. La broma invisibiliza el problema de un colectivo discriminado y estigmatizado, que necesita apoyos en medios y redes, cuando no los recibe de los agentes de su entorno.

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The body and sexuality in cultural representation: an interview with Susan Bordo

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Dying to be (A)Gendered: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Trans/Nonbinary People’s Experiences with Eating Disorders

Dying to be (A)Gendered: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Trans/Nonbinary People’s Experiences with Eating Disorders

Knowledge of theory of evolution and beliefs as determinants of dualism in health science students

Transfobia en Twitter. El caso Rachel Levine al comienzo de la presidencia de Joe Biden

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