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We Know That Ever Woman Wants To Be Thin. Our Images Of Womanhood Are Almost Synonymous With Thinness.

Many Young Girls Are Constantly Consumed By Controlling And Managing Their Body Image To The Extent That They Are Much More Involved In The Production Of The Self Than In Living.

In General, The Western Body Has Become A Global Brand.

Beauty Has Been Democratised. No Longer The Preserve Of Movie Stars And Models But Available To All. But While The Invitation To Beauty Is Welcomed, It Has Become Not So Much An Option As An Imperative.

Our Idea Of A Healthy Body Is So Destabilised That Insecure People Have Come To Bolster Their Own Bodies By Deeming Others - Those With Fat Bodies - Less Worthy, Less Capable And Less Employable.