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Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert
“how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves”
1990s new decade of sexual liberation- where looking was sanctioned as it was so much safer than touching (aids epidemic influence on culture, music etc).
But act of looking requires object & that object was women
Riot girl v spice girls (woman making their
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