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1. Read 1) Joan Jacobs Brumber, “Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness,” pp. 359-367, in Part III of Women’s America 2) Jo Craven McGinty, “Why Women’s Clothing Sizes Aren’t What They Used to Be: Thanks to shifting guidelines, today’s size 8 is yesterday’s size 16,” Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2019. 2. Write a 30 to 50-word answer to the question below. Write in complete sentences. Your answer must exhibit polish (correct spelling and grammar) and at least one direct citation or paraphrase from this week’s reading. III. Questions: 1. According to Joan Jacobs Brumberg, how has the focus on women’s slenderness shifted since the 1880s? What are the factors she identified in the essay? 2. Research indicates a rise in eating disorders among adolescent girls since 1960s. In a 2003 study, anorexia nervosa prevalence was reported at 0.48% among girls aged 15 to 19 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792687/). However, a 2024 global study reveals a more than doubling of eating disorder prevalence in the past decade, with estimates now at 7.8%, notably affecting 15 to 19-year-olds, particularly females, at a rate of 5.7%, compared to 1.2% for males (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10884122/). 1) What does the persistence of the anorexia nervosa epidemic among teenage girls tell us about the changes and continuities of women’s lives in the past 150 years? 2) To what extent has the media, broadly defined, contributed to perpetuating this epidemic?
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