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Disciplining “docile bodies”: foucauldian insights into eating disorders in Lesléa Newman's fat chance
Other Title(s)
انضباط "الأجسام الطيعة": رؤى فوكولدية في اضطرابات الأكل في رواية "فرصة سمينة" لليسليا نيومان
Author
Source
Journal of the Faculty of Arts
Issue
Vol. 72, Issue 110 (31 Oct. 2022), pp.1-25, 25 p.
Publisher
Alexandria University Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2022-10-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
25
Main Subjects
English Language and Literature
Topics
Abstract AR
يعتمد هذا البحث على مفاهيم ميشيل فوكو عن "الانضباط" و"الأجساد الطيعة" كما وضعها في كتابه "الانضباط والمعاقبة: ولادة السجن" (١٩٧٥) لتناول مأزق الفتيات المراهقات اللائي يعانين من اضطرابات الأكل.
على الرغم من أن كتاب فوكو يتناول التغييرات التي حدثت في نظام العقوبات الغربي، إلا أن تصوره "للجسد الطيع" قد يكون مناسبا لفحص القوى التي يتم فرضها على الأجساد المصابة باضطرابات الأكل، كما يتضح من بطلة رواية ليسليا نيومان "فرصة سمينة" (١٩٩٦) وزميلتها المصابة بفقدان الشهية / النهم، يمكن أن يقال إن لهن أجسادا سهلة الانقياد؛ نتيجة للقواعد الاجتماعية والثقافية ومعايير الجمال التي تنظم تصورات النساء عن مظهرهن وحجم أجسادهن، والتي يصعب تحررهن منها.
Abstract EN
This paper draws on Michel Foucault's concepts of "discipline" and "docile bodies" as he theorizes them in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) to address the predicament of adolescent girls with eating disorders.
Although Foucault's book is primarily concerned with the changes that occurred in the Western penal system, his perception of the "docile body" may be well-appropriated to examine the discursive forces that are meted out on eating disordered bodies.
Women with eating disordered bodies, as exemplified by the protagonist of Lesléa Newman's novel Fat Chance (1996), and her anorexic/bulimic class-mate, may thus be said to possess docile bodies; a byproduct of sociocultural norms and beauty standards that discipline women's perceptions of their appearance and body size, and from which they can hardly be liberated.
Bringing Foucauldian ideas to bear on eating disordered bodies does not propose liberating them; rather, it serves only to bring new insights into viewing them as the object of application of disciplinary power.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hamadah, Jaida Jawad. 2022. Disciplining “docile bodies”: foucauldian insights into eating disorders in Lesléa Newman's fat chance. Journal of the Faculty of Arts،Vol. 72, no. 110, pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1453008
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hamadah, Jaida Jawad. Disciplining “docile bodies”: foucauldian insights into eating disorders in Lesléa Newman's fat chance. Journal of the Faculty of Arts Vol. 72, no. 110 (2022), pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1453008
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hamadah, Jaida Jawad. Disciplining “docile bodies”: foucauldian insights into eating disorders in Lesléa Newman's fat chance. Journal of the Faculty of Arts. 2022. Vol. 72, no. 110, pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1453008
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 23-25
Record ID
BIM-1453008