Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (56 page)

Thomas, Clarence, 89, 11, 71, 23439m passim

Thompson, Kevin, 56

Thurschwell, Adam, 226

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Tiegs, Cheryl, 163

Timaeus
(Plato), 34

Time,
193, 268, 269

Tom Jones,
110, 11617

Torture, public, 143

Totalization, and ''difference," 259, 260

Toys, children's, 263

Transcendence, 4, 15, 3642, 227;

anorectics', 202;

of body (Cartesian), 322n.25; of domestic arena, 68; domestic arena as, 118;

of hunger and desire, 6869 "Transcenders," 37

Transformation, 42;

cultural, 3642, 240, 243, 28485, 295;

in health system, 31516; of meaning, 168;

physical, 66, 185, 24550, 26972.

See also
Cosmetic changes; Dieting; Fitness; Plasticity Transgression:

body as site of, 4; food as, 112, 12831;

Madonna and, 26869.

See also
Temptress Travolta, John, 246, 32324 Trickster, body as, 228
Truly, Madly, Deeply,
39
Truth or Dare,
272

Twiggy, 102

Tyson, Mike, 234, 236

U

Ultrasound, 85, 86

United Way,
80

Universalism, feminism and, 21925

Use of Pleasure
(Foucault), 198

V

Van Halen, Eddie, 334n.24

Vanity Fair,
272

Victorian culture / Nineteenth century, 177; aristocracy, 117, 191;

conduct manuals, 11214, 130, 183;

corsets, 143, 162, 212;

dieting in, 185;

eating disorders, 50, 51, 62, 64, 168, 183, 308n.44, 319n.3;

evolutionary theory, 75;

fashion, 143, 159, 162, 208, 212, 325n.103;

femininity, 24, 50, 15758, 16263, 169, 181, 330n.11;

feminism, 157, 16162, 327n.118, 331n.28;

hysteria, 46, 4951, 6667, 15759, 167 68, 169, 180, 327n.117, 331n.28;

ideal woman, 16263, 183, 321n.12, 330n.11;

masculinity, 50;

medical establishment, 5051, 64, 158, 16162, 169, 327n.117;

middle class, 157, 185, 19192; "new woman" of, 206, 335n.29; resurgent, 159, 208, 331n.28;

and sexuality of women, 16263, 183;

slenderness ideals, 212;

social symbolism of body weight and size, 19192; and women eating, 110, 11216, 117, 130, 183

Videos, Madonna, 27274

"View from nowhere," 3940, 21729 Virey, J. J., 9

Virginia Slims ads, 100102, 103

Vision Quest,
173, 19596, 198 Voluptuousness:

African American female, 9; culture and, 102;

Madonna's, 26970; after World War II, 159.

See also
Hourglass/"Fuller" figure

W

Waist Land,
20911

Walker, Alice, 41

Walker v. Pierce,
76, 7980, 311n.16

Washington, Desiree, 234, 235, 236
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Watts, Alan, 14546

Weaver, Sigourney, 173

Weight loss, 30, 31, 68;

advertisements and, 99;

boyfriends/husbands promoting, 15455, 334n.24; vs. flab as enemy, 18791;

intestines removed for, 140.

See also
Dieting; Fitness Weight Watchers ads, 112, 126, 129

West, Cornel, 42, 284

West, Ellen, 140, 146, 147, 15657, 159, 31920

White, Vanna, 335n.33 Whitehead, A. N., 1, 2 Whitehead, Mary Beth, 94 Whites:

anorectics among, 320n.9; as beauty norm, 25;

feminist, 1523, 225, 229, 337n.11;

hooks and, 285

Whites, LeeAnn, 335n.31, 336 Wife, ideal, 118

Will, 68;

eating disorders and, 14748, 15354, 178, 180, 19698, 323n.58;

fitness exercise and, 151, 15354, 301n.2;

"male," 21112;

overweight and, 19293.

See also
Control; Discipline Williams, Patricia, 235

Winfrey, Oprah, 60, 82, 255, 296 Winnicott, D. W., 280

Winston v. Lee,
75, 78 Witch, Anita Hill as, 235 Witchhunts, 161

Wittig, Monique, 17

Wolf, Naomi, 29, 304n.35 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1718

Womanhood, fear of, 15556, 16061

Women, 137;

African American, 911, 22, 63, 100102, 103, 12425, 23536, 26364;

ambivalence about "fe

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maleness," 37;

as bodies, 511, 1215, 143;

"consuming," 206;

dieting among, 53, 329n.4;

in domestic arena, 42, 71, 11721, 159, 171, 208;

eating disorders among, 4552 passim, 12831, 140, 15461, 167, 17073, 320n.10, 329n.6;

eating gluttonously / devouring, 117, 161, 163, 206, 318n.12; eating as love substitute, 12526;

eating restrained quantities, 11016, 134, 183;

eating in secret, 126, 12830;

as Enemy, 23637;

fear of, 16061, 163;

feeling fat, 154, 204, 334n.25;

female disorders,
see
Agoraphobia; Eating disorders; Hysteria; fitness benefits, 15051;

as food consumers, 10310; as hunger, 117, 16061, 163;

and hunger as sexuality, 11017, 148, 161, 163, 183;

and labor division, 71, 11731, 171, 208;

and male dominance, 29, 262;

management of desire in, 68, 7879, 8687, 11016, 20512;

media ideal, 16364, 182, 321n.12;

men as, 92;

needs unnurtured, 326n.109;

"New" (late Victorian era), 206, 335n.29; "New" (1920s), 241, 335n.29;
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as "New Man," 17174; objectified, 118, 182, 26774;

and oppressor/ oppressed model, 23, 28;

as passive bodies, 1215, 90;

personhood of, 72, 79, 94, 312n.24;

in public domain, 3637, 68, 134, 170, 171 (
see also
Professionals);

and slenderness ideal, 20412; sterilized involuntarily, 76;

subjectivity of, 8088, 91, 92, 9397, 26775;

subordination of, 262;

and superwoman, 47, 17374, 309n.48, 331n.21;

as temptresses, 68, 14, 29, 71, 148;

as "too much," 160, 32627; "traditional" vs. feminist, 48;

Victorian ideal, 16263, 183, 321n.12, 330n.11.

See also
Femininity; Feminism; Mothers; Nurturing, female; Slenderness Women's Franchise League, 157

"Women's liberation," 1523, 268.

See also
Feminism Wooley, Susan, 5556

Wooley, Wayne, 5556

Work ethic, 15, 201

Working class, and muscles, 19395 World AntiSlavery Conference, 157 "World"travellers, 28687

World War II, 159, 208

Wright, Richard, 275

Yearning
(hooks), 40, 279, 283, 28586, 287, 316n.72

Yellow Wallpaper
(Gilman), 15859 Young, Iris Marion, 95, 96

Yuppies:

nontraditional ads featuring, 13334; will exercised by, 15354;

working out, 195

Zimmer, Marc, 18889, 306n.17 Zirelli, Linda, 17

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