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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse. An interesting analysis of ...

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