Brandy Melville

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THE FEMALE FIGURE IN CULTURE “Styles of the female figure vary over time and across cultures: they reflect cultural obsessions and preoccupations in ways that are still poorly understood. Today, massiveness, power, or abundance in a woman’s body is met with distaste.” -Sandra Lee Bartky Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (2014)


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