Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures to_____________?

A. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control

B. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes

C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized

D. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive

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