The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cu — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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