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The essay has two parts. Answer both questions. Write them as separate answers, as you would if you were answering two separate questions in an exam. Give equal space to each question.
1) Women’s bodies are symbols of social order. In The Unbearable Weight, Susan Bordo argues that the preoccupation with thinness in America reflects significant social, political and economic changes in the gender roles that organize American capitalism. How does the preoccupation with thinness reveal the cultural basis of contemporary capitalist society?
2) In Dude You’re a Fag, C.J. Pascoe shows that two types of masculine discourses pervade life at River High, “fag discourse” and “sex talk.” Explain how these two types of discourses each inform a specific model of masculinity and create the potential for gendered violence.
The essay has two parts. Answer both questions. Write them as separate answers, as you would if you were answering two separate questions in an exam. Give equal space to each question.
1) Women’s bodies are symbols of social order. In The Unbearable Weight, Susan Bordo argues that the preoccupation with thinness in America reflects significant social, political and economic changes in the gender roles that organize American capitalism. How does the preoccupation with thinness reveal the cultural basis of contemporary capitalist society?
2) In Dude You’re a Fag, C.J. Pascoe shows that two types of masculine discourses pervade life at River High, “fag discourse” and “sex talk.” Explain how these two types of discourses each inform a specific model of masculinity and create the potential for gendered violence.
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