Lec 4 - Bordo Flashcards
1
Q
Bordo - title?
A
Hunger as Ideology
2
Q
Bordo - diet pills / fads are always “ancient secrets” – rather than …
A
crude and medical means of duping yourself and others into projecting the image of “self-control”
3
Q
Bordo - What is never shown in diet ads / elsewhere?
A
calm, cool, healthy attitude towards food
4
Q
Bordo - men are __ personified
A
hunger
5
Q
Bordo - women’s appetites are presumably _____________
A
sexually consummated
6
Q
Bordo - moralization is embodied in the -
A
slim figure, against the public / private indulgence
7
Q
Bordo - it is bourgeois to appear as though you’ve
A
transcended desire … though even as you do so you’re only governed by desire in a different way.
