December 1999
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... However, as stated by Heartney, "beauty can be a double-edged sword -as capable of destabilizing rigid conventions and restrictive behavioural models as it is of reinforcing them" (2000, xv). In relation to this double-edged sword, the novel can be seen to be embracing both Susan Bordo (1993), Sander L. Gilman (1999), and Kathy Davis (1991Davis ( , 1997Davis ( , 1999Davis ( , 2003 all consider different aspects of the connection between body and femininity. The first of these, Susie Orbach, wrote Fat is a Feminist Issue in 1978, which is close to the date of publication of Weldon's novel. ...
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December 1999