Bodies themselves are historically constructed by suffering and success

Evidence

Suffering and success shape the body as do hunger and affluence. The fantasy about the uniqueness of the “Jew’s Body,” however, postulates that the difference of the body reflects an essential difference in the mind or soul. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 730

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A condensed statement of the body-as-historical-construction thesis that undercuts both racial essentialism and naive social constructionism — worth sitting with.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 730