Women wearing summer kimonos use portable fans as they walk in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on June 29. Japan’s investigation of the weight and dietary habits of young women is tainted by its framing as a matter of ensuring healthy babies. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Lunar
Framing anorexia fight as birth rate solution is harmful to women
- Making the prevention of anorexia a matter of ensuring healthy babies is simplistic and reduces women to their ability to bear children
- The focus should be on tackling what is prompting many women to become obsessed with their weight, including media images that valorise thinness
Women wearing summer kimonos use portable fans as they walk in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on June 29. Japan’s investigation of the weight and dietary habits of young women is tainted by its framing as a matter of ensuring healthy babies. Photo: Reuters
