beauty

  • Naomi Wolf wrote, in her book published in the 1990s, ‘The Beauty Myth: “More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers. Recent research consistently shows

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  • Last week, I read a random news report in a Malayalam daily about a 19-year-old woman who committed suicide because her husband bullied and shamed her for being dark-complexioned. At first glance, the news did not strike me as anything great, but as I kept reading, the story flashed images of what the woman might

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