Category: Social and Cultural Change

Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures to_____________?

A. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
B. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
D. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control