Thank you for the site Jivko. I wouldn't agree and haven't found helpful
the
idea that anorexia bulimia are a "disease" or "sickness" that resides
or is located inside persons, rich or otherwise, nor in the women
who take to an extreme a socially culturally supported idea that
their worth and value as women is based on achieving and
maintaining a paper thin and "youthful" looking body.
Laura
Jivko Georgiev wrote:
> The whole Surveiller et Punir book is on that subject.
> There is a site,in which there is essay on Foucault
> and anorexia:
> http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html
>
> Find it somewhere in the site.
>
> If You ask me, anorexia nevrosa is the sickness of the
> rich - in non-rich countries u cannot allow urself
> anorexia. Its rather problem of the rich, not of the
> represed:)))
> Jivko
>
> --- Sissy <sissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm passing on a request for references if anyone
> > here has any.
> > Would anyone have a few references for Foucaults
> > work on modern
> > regimes of power, ie., disciplinary and prescriptive
> > forms of power.
> > we are thinking about anorexia as a disciplinary
> > form of power that
> > relies upon
> > normalizing judgment, any references for texts by
> > Foucault, or by
> > others who write about his work that might make
> > these ideas accessible
> > to
> > novice readers.
> > Thanks
> > Laura
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> > From: RMaisel@xxxxxxx
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:58:57 EDT
> > Subject: thanks
> > To: sissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > HI Laura,
> >
> > I hope you are well, and had a good weekend. thanks
> > for sending me the stuff
> > on foucault. it was really interesting, though i
> > know i am not
> > understanding it all. Could you do me a bog favor
> > and ask the people on the
> > foucault list for a few references for his work on
> > modern regimes of power,
> > i.e., disciplinary and prescriptive forms of power.
> > Perhaps expalin that we
> > are thinking about anorexia as a disciplinary form
> > of power that relies upon
> > normalizing judgement, and ask for references for
> > texts by Foucault, or by
> > others who write about his work that might make
> > these ideas accessable to
> > novice readers. I'd really appreciate this. See
> > you thursday.
> >
> > Rick
> >
>
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the
idea that anorexia bulimia are a "disease" or "sickness" that resides
or is located inside persons, rich or otherwise, nor in the women
who take to an extreme a socially culturally supported idea that
their worth and value as women is based on achieving and
maintaining a paper thin and "youthful" looking body.
Laura
Jivko Georgiev wrote:
> The whole Surveiller et Punir book is on that subject.
> There is a site,in which there is essay on Foucault
> and anorexia:
> http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html
>
> Find it somewhere in the site.
>
> If You ask me, anorexia nevrosa is the sickness of the
> rich - in non-rich countries u cannot allow urself
> anorexia. Its rather problem of the rich, not of the
> represed:)))
> Jivko
>
> --- Sissy <sissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm passing on a request for references if anyone
> > here has any.
> > Would anyone have a few references for Foucaults
> > work on modern
> > regimes of power, ie., disciplinary and prescriptive
> > forms of power.
> > we are thinking about anorexia as a disciplinary
> > form of power that
> > relies upon
> > normalizing judgment, any references for texts by
> > Foucault, or by
> > others who write about his work that might make
> > these ideas accessible
> > to
> > novice readers.
> > Thanks
> > Laura
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> > From: RMaisel@xxxxxxx
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:58:57 EDT
> > Subject: thanks
> > To: sissy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > HI Laura,
> >
> > I hope you are well, and had a good weekend. thanks
> > for sending me the stuff
> > on foucault. it was really interesting, though i
> > know i am not
> > understanding it all. Could you do me a bog favor
> > and ask the people on the
> > foucault list for a few references for his work on
> > modern regimes of power,
> > i.e., disciplinary and prescriptive forms of power.
> > Perhaps expalin that we
> > are thinking about anorexia as a disciplinary form
> > of power that relies upon
> > normalizing judgement, and ask for references for
> > texts by Foucault, or by
> > others who write about his work that might make
> > these ideas accessable to
> > novice readers. I'd really appreciate this. See
> > you thursday.
> >
> > Rick
> >
>
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