‘NIGHT MOTHER: WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF CULTURE

This study is based on a systematic social, cultural and psychological analysis of contemporary woman’s relationship with the Body Politics and Eating Disorders especially in Western societies from the perspective of socialist feminism. The analysis is also enriched with a literary approach as there are illustrations from the feminist American playwright Marsha Norman’s play ‘night Mother which exemplifies women’s obsessive relationship with their bodies and, eating disorders in the form of excessive eating (obesity/ compulsive eating) or in the total refusal of eating (anorexia)