ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a view of the body and subjectivity as discursive products – a view in which all human experience is understood as cultural and social practice. In such a perspective, in order to approach women’s experiences of their bodies, an analysis of the practices which constitute and regulate experience is required. Experimental body image research, as we saw in the last two chapters, entirely eschews such an approach in its assumptions that women’s experience of their bodies is simply perceptual and cognitive, and that women’s difficult experiences of their bodies are located in the minds of individual women.
