Title of Presentation
Three Square Meals a Day: Biopolitics and the (Re)Production of (Dis)Order
Moderator
Hope Lima, Winthrop University
Panel Title
Food, Health, and Nutrition
Start Date
22-2-2019 3:25 PM
Session Number
Session V
Description
Following the mid-1970s, a major spike in eating disorders occurred in both the United States and the United Kingdom. This paper explores how the sugar and diet food industries contributed to this rise, and examines the specific ways that both industries reproduce stereotypes of physical normality that both draw upon, and reinforce, the medicalization of disordered patterns of eating when advertising their products.
Keywords
Eating Disorders, Body Image, Psychology, Corporate Power, Food Politics
Three Square Meals a Day: Biopolitics and the (Re)Production of (Dis)Order
Following the mid-1970s, a major spike in eating disorders occurred in both the United States and the United Kingdom. This paper explores how the sugar and diet food industries contributed to this rise, and examines the specific ways that both industries reproduce stereotypes of physical normality that both draw upon, and reinforce, the medicalization of disordered patterns of eating when advertising their products.
Your Title/College/Department/Program
Linea Cutter, PhD Student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
College: College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Department/Program: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT)