Luis Keridwen N
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
J Lesbian Stud. 2012;16(1):108-34. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2011.605007.
Why is thinness so important among women who have largely rejected mainstream definitions of femininity? The idea of health has great cultural power and has come to symbolize not simply bodily but also spiritual, social, and moral well-being. These ideas permeate U.S. culture, and in women's land communities, the virtue of hunger and the morality of health take on differently inflected but no less potent meanings. Ironically, in a context where women reject many gender restrictions--restrictions increasingly, as Sandra Bartky notes, focused on the female body-the importance of the thin (and thus properly feminine) body persists through the symbolism of health and virtue.
为什么在很大程度上拒绝主流女性气质定义的女性中，瘦如此重要呢？健康观念具有巨大的文化影响力，它不仅象征着身体的健康，还代表着精神、社会和道德层面的幸福。这些观念渗透在美国文化中，在女性聚居社区里，饥饿的美德和健康的道德呈现出不同但同样有力的意义。具有讽刺意味的是，在女性拒绝诸多性别限制的背景下——正如桑德拉·巴特基所指出的，这些限制越来越多地聚焦于女性身体——瘦（因而才是恰当的女性化）身体的重要性通过健康和美德的象征意义得以延续。
