Thinking about Food and Embodiment

Thinking about food and embodiment Deborah Lupton, Department ofSociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney

Bodies as social constructions• The lived experience of the body in everyday life• How bodies are governed, regulated and controlled• How bodies are culturally portrayed

• How other people’s bodies interact with our bodies: interembodiment/intercorporeality• Bodies as conceptually fluid and permeable: how body boundaries (literal and symbolic) are regulated• Bodies as assemblages

• Theorising fatness• Fatness and morality• The grotesque body• The abject body• The fluid, permeable body• Food/health/beauty triplex• HAES

Theorising fatnessFoucault:• the body• the medical gaze• the care of the self• governmentality• biopower and biopolitics

Feminist philosophers: fluidities, leaky bodies• Elizabeth Grosz• Julia Kristeva• Margit Shildrick

Queer theory• The cultural construction of embodiment/identity• Embodiment and identity as unstable• Gender and sexual identity as performed (Judith Butler)• The challenging of normativity

Health, diet and morality• Religious and spiritual beliefs• Health as an indicator of goodness• Body size as an indicator of self-control and self-discipline• Ill-health and fat embodiment as indicators of excessive consumption, lack of self-discipline

The grotesque body• Transgression• Excess• Lack of self-discipline and self-control• Ugliness

The abject body• Fluid, permeable• Not tightly contained or controlled• Monstrous• Object of loathing and disgust

The food/health/beauty triplex• Health, diet and attractiveness all linked to body size• Healthy = thin = beautiful

‘Queering’ Health at Every Size• HAES positions concepts of the body as natural and instinctive• By changing our view of our selves, we change others’ views• But can ‘nature’ and the ‘instinctive’ be separated from society and culture?

Thinking about Food and Embodiment

by Deborah Lupton on Sep 01, 2012

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