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DIP 027: Political bodies
Just as my friend Bethany is accused of ‘glorifying obesity’ just for having the gumption to exist without shame, Lindy describes being harangued with the same question – ‘isn’t this a slippery slope into poor health?’ – every time she asserts her humanity as a fat woman. As she puts it: ‘The question itself is an assault: it validates the idea tha
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Many of the lexical features of body confidence messages are here—choice, freedom, rewriting the rules, defying conventions—with images that reinforce these and a soundtrack of the song “Venus” (I’m your fire at your desire). Yet it is striking that Gillette is not trying to free women from pressures to remove body hair but rather attempting to exp
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