Biomedical, psychological and feminist models differ. Biomedical “offers important scientific research about possible physiological causes of purging and starvation.” But what makes this model different from the rest is that this model has nothing to do with the history, socialization or cultural factors of this disorder. This model is mainly to focus on using medical treatment to help women get over their disease or trauma. Psychological model is influenced by the “biological, psychological and cultural factors” everything that the biomedical model does not refer to. The interesting fact about these two models is that they both “neglect color, lesbians and working class women”. The feminist model believes almost all eating disorders occur in women and not men. This model anylizes how “sexism” may relate to eating problems and how men make a huge impact of the women’s eating disorder. A women believes that in order to get a man and feel beautiful that she needs to be skinny if she’s not then women believe the men would dump her for a skinner more attractive women.
According to Thompson eating disorders are a survival technique. My view on this statement is that people eat when they are depressed, bored, scared, happy, nervous, ect. Eating is a crucial part of our lives. So when something bad happens to someone like getting sexually or physically abused , I don’t blame a person just wanting to eat. Eating makes all your worries and pain go away. But once they get themselves under control and stop eating they realize what they have done and they have this fear that they will become heavy, so they will go into the bathroom and purge.
Racism and Cultures have a lot to do with eating disorders. For example the italian culture is made of up food. Every Italian restaurant or family you go to you never get a small meal. It is always huge and you could can never finish it! How can someone be skinny with all that food they eat everyday? Over in Africa they have no choice but to be skinny because there is less food and they exercise everyday they walk everywhere they go and such. Certain Cultures do have a rule about being this perfect barbie doll skinny.
By: Nicole V