“Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.” MenEatingLowsCancerBiologyDisorderLungsGeneticsAnorexiaEating DisorderSmokersLung Cancer Book:Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Source: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
“Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.” SelfBodyCultureIssuesComfortElementsEatingFemaleSelf WorthDisorderDominantBizarreEntitlementNourishmentAnorexiaEating Disorder Book:Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body Source: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body