Discussion
What does the author mean by bodies that meet prescriptive social roles, enhance social value and secure social power ?
Answer: C
The key gives option C: people constantly undergo evaluation of their bodies to fit the role society prescribes.
The passage says natural bodies are made 'deficient' and are therefore in need of 'chronic bodily evaluation and modification in order to produce bodies that meet prescriptive social roles, enhance social value and secure social power'. The bodies that fit the prescribed roles are the aim of the repeated evaluation, so the author means that people keep judging their bodies against the roles society prescribes.
Option A speaks of a prescription for understanding our role, which the passage does not say. Option B turns the argument into a claim that power comes from body modification, and option D into a claim that modification increases social value; both take the aim of the process as a fact and miss that the passage is describing constant evaluation.
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