Cass Boe’s Reviews > The 'Fat' Female Body > Status Update

"Insofar as meaning and identity are fundamentally intercorporeal, then self-transformation can never be effected simply at the level of the 'individual' in liberal terms" (p. 115-116).

"The 'normative', 'healthy' body...speaks to its society of an adherence to tenets of purity and maintenance of the body through self-control and managed desires. However, this venerated body is a fundamentally immaterial one. By this, I mean to suggest that this 'normative' body is nowhere to be found as a reality...Given this 'normative slender' body's immateriality, >>>all bodies fail as projects<<<" (p. 79)

"More than a simple response to a biological requirement for nutrition, eating situates subjects as responsible or irresponsible...In the midst of public health campaigns against 'obesity', then...eating practices become tools of self-authorship...thus food and eating practices are less empirical objects or natural occurrences than highly mediated technologies which are shaped by and reinforce humanist logic" (p. 66)