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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Bordo's idea of Women's body

After reading Susan Bordo's "The body and the reproduction of femininity", I thought the relationship between the women's body and the culture.
I agree with Susan Bordo's idea. In our daily life, bodies represented carrier of culture and a powerful symbolic form. It reflect culture and fundamentally culture made bodies. People have different gesture in different situations. All body behaviors are regulated and restrained by many aspects. Different bodies depends on many social elements, like etiquette, tradition even belief. That's what Susan Bordo means "docile body". The subject is that some women want use a sort of symptom like apositia to "change their body", getting rid of weak body. It is ludicrous and all we have to do is just follow natural facts.
According to Susan Bordo's viewpoint, In this generation, the contemporary preoccupation with appearance and this affect women much more than men right now.
Bordo focus on practice about women's temperament. Bordo recommend one kind of theory that the rights is creative, not suppressed power. This theory is related to this article. Bordo makes a example about some disorders of women like apositia, hysteria and unfamiliar environment terrorist. In my opinion, Bordo want use these examples to indicate how women accept the body control come from society even how women believe in this kind of physically flagging. I totally agree with Bordo's position that the disorders of women is a kind of protest against those "culture criterion" of women. But they are not the effective and correct way to say out their protest, on the contrary, it will harm their health.
It is talked about in this article that some apositia women have same identity. They think that they experience how to control and hold themselves via apositia and they think by doing this, they can get rid of weak and helplessness of women's body. Unfortunately, I will give a negative answer to this topic and Bordo has coincident idea with me. It is just a sort of illusion and Bordo want to tell us that women pay the price for the conflict between idealize body and real body.
I think everything is changing with culture and we cannot always obey theory. let nature take its course. Theory is just a form and it can never change natural facts.

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