Treatment intervenes as an antagonistic force that misunderstands and Terms of persistent, reiterative striving toward individual autonomy andĪchievement, which must also be paternalistically sanctioned. "always 'doing' with or for another, even if the other is "does" her class, culture, or gender alone she is Incorporate analyses of capitalism to the ways in which Judithīutler's theory of gender performativity can undo pathologizing, "economically oriented social subject" (Saltmarsh 50), I By reading Giselle and her sister Holly as Giselle's anorexia echoes the logic of self-reliance and autonomyĭeveloped in the novel. Hunger that she perceives as inconsistent with fulfilling her In response to the demands of this economy her anorexia is depicted asĪn attempt to suppress her hunger for emotional and physical intimacy, a Giselle's mode of self-fashioning develops Subjects through surveillance and discipline at institutional, familial,Īnd biopolitical levels. "establish 'the economy' as a discursiveĭomain" (49) in which capitalist ideologies are pressed upon "economically oriented subjectivities" (50), I read Skinny as Of the embodied consequences of economic subject formation within aĬapitalist context. Emerging from Kaslik's narrative is a critique Of patriarchal capitalism, including self-reliance and individualistic Mitigation of desires that are incommensurate with the productive logics
Girl's disease" (Bordo, "Not" 47), Ibi Kaslik'sĢ004 novel, Skinny, depicts the protagonist's physical wasting as a Retrieved from ĬOUNTERING THE VIEW OF ANOREXIA as the "rich, spoiled, white
MLA style: "'This hunger is DNA you cannot undo': anorexia and economically oriented subjects in Ibi Kaslik's skinny." The Free Library.
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