“Healthy and “diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subject…

Naomi Wolf
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“Healthy and “diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. ✨ The Beauty Myth. Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.
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“Healthy and “diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. ✨ The Beauty Myth. Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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