Navya Kapoor Recently, eating disorders have come into the limelight through movies like To The Bone , written and directed by Marti Noxon. The movie revolves around 20-year old Ellen, who suffers from anorexia nervosa. She journeys through different institutions, all of which fail to help her. The movie crystallizes in the fourth—and final—institution operated by Dr. Beckham, rumored to have a “new and different approach”. The movie presents the struggles faced by the patients in their battle with anorexia and the accompanied social stigma and misconceptions. In presenting the purging and restricting categories of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the core characteristics of the disorders have been demonstrated well—extreme diets and starvation, distorted perception of one’s body image, and a heightened concern with weight. Patients’ distorted perception of their body images can be seen in their attempts to lose weight despite being underweight and extremely...

Tara M. Rai The article is based on the first two seasons of the show. Set in 1920s-30s Madrid, Cable Girls is an assertively feminist Spanish series with complex, female and non-binary (one) characters at the forefront. It follows the lives of four vastly different young women working as telephone operators in a pioneering telephone company. The political significance of solidarity is exemplified in the fierce friendship that develops among these women, as they navigate their personal and professional lives through structural oppression. The show’s feminism intersects poignantly with mental health issues – as products and tools of the patriarchy. Elisa, the daughter of wealthy telephone company-owning parents, is first depicted as surreptitiously avoiding the medication her mother insists upon. One then sees her as a suspicious wife who has her husband’s secretary spy on him for potential adultery. There’s basis for her suspicion; however, when she finds potential evidence, a...