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description: In this challenging book Kim Chernin argues that our societys increasing demand that women should be thin is no accident of fashion but has a political meaning. It is she insists an unrecognised aspect of male violence against women; it has to do with the male-imposed image of the child-woman and the threat to male culture that a mature woman and a mature womans body represent.
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title: Womansize
publisher: Women's Press (UK)