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

• A. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
• B. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
• C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
• D. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control